On 08/02/2010 10:00 PM, Josh Lawrence wrote: > hi everyone, > > in my never-ending search for midi sequencers, I ran across Attrk, a > rewrite of the tracker ttrk: > > http://www.lumanmagnum.net/physics/attrk/index.html > > I have been able to build it just fine, but I keep running into an > issue with rtc access. the application wants to be run as root to get > realtime access to the realtime clock (rtc?). I've never run into > this issue before with midi sequencers, so I've been doing some > reading. apparently this was an older way of getting accurate timing > from a midi sequencer, but isn't used much anymore (my assumption > might be incorrect, please correct me if I'm wrong). so what is the > *proper* way to handle this sort of thing on a modern system? > > thanks, > > Josh Hello Josh, Create an audio group, add yourself to it and create a new udev rule in /etc/udev/rules.d and name it something like 40-rtc-permissions.rules with a single line in it: KERNEL=="rtc0", GROUP="audio" After a reboot /dev/rtc0 will have guid audio so any user in the audio group has access to /dev/rtc0 Best, Jeremy _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
