[mythtv-users] Re: Tearing in playback

[Doug Larrick]

William Uther wrote:
>
> On 07/01/2005, at 9:51 PM, Tom Hughes wrote:
[snip]
>> If you're root then that seems odd. The only things I would have
>> thought likely to do that are the permissions on /dev/rtc which
>> should be irrelevant as root can open any file. The other thing
>> would be the dev.rtc.max-user-freq kernel configuration value but
>> that only limits non-root users.
>>
[snip]
>
> I guess I lied slightly. :)  I'm running the front end setuid root.
> Maybe the front end is dropping root privs in the relevant thread before
> trying to do what it is doing?  Hmm, /dev/rtc is rw by group audio, and
> user mythtv is in that group.

Then your problem with RTC timing is almost certainly
/proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq

-Doug

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