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Re: hwclock problem?



On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Anders Hammarquist wrote:

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> >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?
> 
> Either your kernel does not have RTC support compiled in or you are missing
> /dev/rtc (should be major 10, minor 135. Proc misc will reveal whether it's
> compiled into the kernel). Yes, I was very confused by that error message
> as well.

Ah yes, I don't have RTC.  I'll recompile, thanks!


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