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From: tvf@cci632.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: readclock problem solved.
Summary: Not quite for me
Keywords: readclock,/dev/mem,/dev/port
Message-ID: <36795@cci632.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 90 13:14:08 GMT
References: <366@cancol.oz>
Reply-To: tvf@cci632.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer)
Organization: Computer Consoles, Inc., An STC Icon, Rochester, NY
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In article <366@cancol.oz> eyal@cancol.oz (Eyal Lebedinsky) writes:
>I had a problem (1.5.9) where readclock always returned '-q'. It turned out
>that /dev/mem was not set properly. one should 'mknod /dev/mem c 1 1'. I had
>it as a block device - never had a problem.

I have my /dev/mem device set up properly, and I still have this problem.  I
even tried making readclock setuid root, but still nothing.  Hmmm....
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