Absolutely, thanks so much for taking a look at this.
I also included the mame.log, there is a recurring error i see, "unknown pcm card".
Also when loading different roms I see a common error of trying to find file "dl-1425.bin" but cannot find.
the PCM stuff is some usual ALSA whining, nothing to worry about.
Now what I don't get is that your mame.log here show nothing special, whereas your punisher looks like you've enabled verbose and started GM from the console, not AM.
I believe I did that log from the console, not within AM?
It was the only way I knew how to make a log.
But now that you mention that, I guess that explains why it looks like stuff isn’t running through X.
Guess my problem with so many rims not loading lies elsewhere. Maybe it is the bios files like PL1 mentioned, just didn’t realize so many rims needed bios files to run.