From f881681e8ef816a6256175ea5f30c9454245c7f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: diego Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 17:01:07 +0000 Subject: Also mention sysctl for adjusting RTC settings. git-svn-id: svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk@19975 b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2 --- DOCS/xml/en/install.xml | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml b/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml index 4ec060dede..a2fccb6154 100644 --- a/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml +++ b/DOCS/xml/en/install.xml @@ -570,9 +570,14 @@ There are three timing methods in MPlayer. option enables it, but a properly set up kernel is required. If you are running kernel 2.4.19pre8 or later you can adjust the maximum RTC frequency for normal users through the /proc - filesystem. Use this command to + filesystem. Use one of the following two commands to enable RTC for normal users: echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq + sysctl dev/rtc/max-user-freq=1024 + You can make this setting permanent by adding the latter to + /etc/sysctl.conf. + + You can see the new timer's efficiency in the status line. The power management functions of some notebook BIOSes with speedstep CPUs interact badly with RTC. Audio and video may get out of sync. Plugging the -- cgit v1.2.3