[gentoo-dev] qemu: "Could not initialize SDL - exiting" & "Could not configure '/dev/rtc' to have a 1024 Hz timer. "

[Alexander Skwar]

Hi!

I installed qemu with the following flags:

[ebuild   R   ] app-emulation/kqemu-1.3.0_pre9  0 kB 
[ebuild   R   ] app-emulation/qemu-0.8.2  0 kB 
[ebuild   R   ] app-emulation/qemu-softmmu-0.8.2-r1  USE="alsa kqemu sdl" 0 kB 
[ebuild   R   ] app-emulation/qemu-user-0.8.2  0 kB 

When I try to start qemu, I get the following error:

alexander@blatt /data/VL $ /usr/bin/qemu -cdrom iso/VLdynamite-5.9.9.2.iso -hda data/vldynamite.img -m 256 -boot d
Could not configure '/dev/rtc' to have a 1024 Hz timer. This is not a fatal
error, but for better emulation accuracy either use a 2.6 host Linux kernel or
type 'echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq' as root.
Could not initialize SDL - exiting

Two questions:

1) Why do I get this error message about /dev/rtc?
alexander@blatt /var/db/pkg $ cat /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq
1024
alexander@blatt /data/VL $ ls -la /dev/rtc /dev/misc/rtc 
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 10, 135 18. Nov 19:50 /dev/misc/rtc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       8 18. Nov 19:50 /dev/rtc -> misc/rtc

2) What's "Could not initialize SDL - exiting" supposed to
mean? As you can see at the beginning of my post, qemu-softmmu
is compiled with SDL support.

Thanks,

Alexander Skwar
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