MPlayer NO GUI

[lokirulez]

Hello all, I am somewhat new to linux and even newer to Debian so details would help me out a lot. I am running Debian 3.1 with a 2.6.8 kernel. I just installed mplayer and it works fine from the command line but does not display a GUI when I try and run gmplayer. I have the necessary font, skin, and plug-ins. Below is what spits out at me after running gmplayer:

CPU: Intel (Family: 6, Stepping: 6)
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2


vo: X11 running at 1280x800 with depth 24 and 32 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Permission denied
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.

If this can be fixed by just adding that echo 1024 line to my startup script, how would I do that? Although I doubt that is the real problem.

[lacek]

RTC has nothing to do with the absence of the GUI. How did you installed mplayer?

[lokirulez]

I installed it from source, then used the basic:

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./configure --enable-gui
make
make install

There were no erros and mplayer without the GUI works great, but as soon as I type gmplayer that error above spits out.

[lacek]

Hmm, strange... Are there more lines of output?

[Guest]

No, but when I run gmplayer as root, I don't get the last two lines of output.

[lacek]

Yes, because root has access to RTC. But this still has nothing to do with GUI, I think. Mplayer displays loads of output. Unless it exits at the point where it tries to access RTC, there must be more output. Could you paste it there, please?
Or doesn mplayer stops at this point, and doesn't start to play video?

[maagimies]

Why don't you just go to http://www.apt-get.org/
and find a repository that offers mplayer? Much easier and faster that way.
This repository has many different mplayer packets.
deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sarge main