On Monday 04 September 2006 02:07, James Wilkinson wrote: > Jack Gates wrote: > > I did this and I see that it created a file name max-user-freq > > in /proc/sys/dev/rtc/ and the only thing in the file is 1024 > > > > So what does this mean? > > May I recommend that you read Documentation/rtc.txt from the kernel > sources? You can find a recent copy at > http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/rtc.txt > > It explains what the RTC is, that it can generate signals at a > relatively high frequency, that this is a problem for slow > computers, and so you have to turn on the support for high > frequency interrupts. > > And that file is how you do so. > > Using these RTC signals means that a program can "wake up" very > frequently (to handle sound generation or whatever) without taking > too much computing time. Thank You -- Jack Gates http://www.morningstarcom.net
