On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:27:21 -0500
Valmor de Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> host high-resolution timer device is no currently
> available (/dev/rtc).
> 
> The actual message is a longer but this is the 
> essence of it. My system does not have this device. 
> I am running devfsd but I am not very familiar with it.
> Shouldn't it create /dev/rtc by default?

No. With devfsd it will be there once your kernel has rtc-support.

> The vmware web site says that 
> 
>     * The real-time clock function must be compiled into your Linux kernel.
>     * VMware Workstation for Linux requires that the parallel port PC-style
>     hardware option (CONFIG_PARPORT_PC) be built and loaded as a kernel module
>     (that is, it must be set to m when the kernel is compiled). 
> 
> I did the second configuration but I do not know exactly how to
> do the first (real-time clock function).

Set "CONFIG_RTC=y" in your kernel-config.

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