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Which Gentoo kernel?
barvaz:
--- Quote from: whammoed on June 18, 2004, 07:11:10 pm ---What kind of system are you running?...I have P4 2.6 prescott w/ Intel d875 MB, 512 dual channel ddr, 160Gb WD SATA hard drive. I assume it probably supports the newer hardware like this better?
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I currently run Gentoo on two systems:
The first is AMD 1700+ on MSI board with 256Mb DDR, GeForce2 and 40Gb HD (this is going to be in my cabinet, once I get around to actually build it).
The second runs on P4 2.4MHz, 512Mb RDRAM, GeForce4, 80GB HD. I use this mainly for work but also play around with xmame and other things.
Both use Gentoo with 2.6.x kernel. The one on AMD was compiled with pretty aggressive CFLAGS and it runs like a charm. The 2.6 kernel offers better driver support (although a standard system runs fine on 2.4), ALSA, udev, SATA , better performance and other goodies. Now that 2.6 is considered stable, I don
whammoed:
barvaz,
Wondering if you have any experience with gentoo and advmame? I can't get it to recognize my mouse (mice). From the documentation it says it looks for mouse devices in /dev/input/eventX but it seems gentoo has the mouse devices in /dev/input and ther isn't an eventX folder.
Any ideas?
barvaz:
Personally, I never tried to use AdvanceMame with a mouse but I believe that in order to use the
whammoed:
thanks, i do see a <> event interface option in the kernel that i did not include...i will try it out today.
whammoed:
I tried compiling event interface into kernel and compiling it as a module. Both ways give me event entries but mouse is still not recognixed. (advm gives error) I know the event entries are mice because when i plug in a ps2 mouse a new event entry is there. Can you see if advm finds any mice on your system???maybe i need to compile something else in the kernel.