This has been in my /etc/modules from the start. For a while now, (most recent?) 2.6 kernels, this will not load "device not found". Since it did not seem to effect anything, I just let it be. (Note I have both a rtc.ko and rtcgen.ko in my kernel's modules.) Finally, an app kicked! Playing with the latest Dynebolic 1.4.1 running in Qemu (1.1 ran very nicely without complaint), I got a non-fatal error message unable to set rtc to some parameter 1024. It suggested running in a 2.6 host kernel (2.6.15 at your service!) or echoing 1024 into a file on some /proc subdirectory (I have no such subdirectory in /proc). Anyone know anything about this?