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bitbytebit:
--- Quote from: dmarcum99 on March 25, 2011, 10:44:34 am ---When I select a game from advmenu, right before the game starts, I see an enlarged pic of the game I selected (cool)...but right before the game starts, I see a mouse pointer. Did I do something wrong in my setup? Is there anything I can do to keep from seeing the pointer before the game starts?
I also went through another 150 or so roms last night. A couple of games run too fast. It might be mame, but I'd thought I'd bring it up. The games I found were Mace & Wayne Gretzky's 3d hockey.
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Try to change device_video to fullscreen instead of auto, maybe that will prevent that. I'll have to investigate the mouse pointer thing, I've seen it on certain games but not others although it might be that device_video setting.
What are the rom file or short names of that and/or others, so I can look them up quicker. There are a group of games in mame that are set to run at 76hz when they really are 60hz. If you get the resolution they should be at, and make an ini file (zookeeper has one in there right now) with that resolution 640x480x32@60.00 for example, using the actual height and width (notice that in Linux it needs the extra x32 for depth). I'm guessing the games are these types, and it's probably mame having the wrong information, but checking the specifically can pinpoint if true. Also running 'switchres --calc romname' on the system might be interesting, seeing exactly what the resolution is it's choosing.
dmarcum99:
Thanks for the advice biybytebit!
I'm not near my cab, but I checked online and both of these games have the same res and refresh rate
Mace: The Dark Age (mace.zip) 640x480X32@57.00
Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey (wg3dh.zip) 640x480x32@57.00
I'll make ini's for these games when I get home and I'll let you know how it turns out.
bitbytebit:
--- Quote from: dmarcum99 on March 25, 2011, 03:12:35 pm ---Thanks for the advice biybytebit!
I'm not near my cab, but I checked online and both of these games have the same res and refresh rate
Mace: The Dark Age (mace.zip) 640x480X32@57.00
Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey (wg3dh.zip) 640x480x32@57.00
I'll make ini's for these games when I get home and I'll let you know how it turns out.
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That's interesting that they are 640x480, might be another issue then. Seems like it's possibly choosing the desktop resolution, which it shouldn't because it should be set to 648x480 so would not overlap them. Possibly running the game, and the remotely checking the resolution setup by doing `DISPLAY=:0.0 xrandr -display :0.0 -q --verbose` through an ssh session, will show details on what is going on.
Also possibly getting a good log and posting it, running manually from an xterm with -verbose and -md 4 added to the groovymame command line. You'll need to set the front end to be fvwm or lxde for that. Or actually could run it like that from an ssh session possibly, just add the `DISPLAY=:0.0 groovymame -verbose -md4 <romname>` so the DISPLAY environment variable is set to go to the console output like the above xrandr method.
Calamity:
I've attached some logs, have been able to reproduce the 9250 issue here, good news at least as I'll be able to test it directly.
bitbytebit:
Fixes for the older Radeon 9200/9250 cards and possibly others for lower dotclocks and 15khz modelines. Installation has dropped the separate /home/ partition, seemed to cause more issues than it helped. Xrandr automatically detects the connector for the cards output, may have been the problem for some people.
27032011 - 1.536 Release
- Install should work on drives smaller than 8 gig again, and refuse on ones too small like < 4 gig
- No longer need to specify connector type for xrandr, auto setting with figure it out for you
- Patch added to Linux kernel hopefully will fix ATI 9200/9250 cards pll values
- During install ask about Video setup too, reorder of roms drive setup
- Fixes to ir_ptr.2 and joystick setting in mame