Bug#606017: nvram-wakeup: can't access /dev/mem

[Salvo Tomaselli]

> Thanks.  Was that run as root?
Yes, of course. You might notice that the error message is not "Permission 
denied"

> I'm not part of the nvram-wakeup maintenance team, so I won't make the
> call, but I do wonder whether this is truly a grave problem in the
> sense that it renders the package unusable for everyone or whether it
> is a case of not supporting all possible motherboards (which is
> a bug, but not a grave one).
To get the message that the motherboard is not supported i had to recompile my 
kernel in order to allow access to /dev/mem, which was restricted by default 
by the kernel itself.

Bye
-- 
Salvo Tomaselli
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