Re: hwclock problem?
On Thu, Jul 16, 1998 at 05:23:49PM -0400, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote:
> I have a small problem with hwclock during the boot process on my Miata.
> During the boot process (and, in fact, any time I try to run hwclock) I
> get a message like the following:
>
> hwclock is unable to get I/O port access. I.e. iopl(3) returned nonzero
> return code -1. This is often because the program isn't running with
> superuser privilege, which it needs.
>
> I tried running hwclock as root by hand, and I get the same message.
> Ideas?
hwclock is extremely badly written. This message almost certainly means
that it can't find the file /dev/rtc (char major 10, minor 135 in my intel
box).
Good luck.
Avery
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