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video card, arcade monitor, advancecd help
Trimoor:
I loaded the latest version of advancecd onto my hard drive, but it won't work with my video cards. I tried sis 6326, diamond stealth 3D 2000, and diamond stealth 64 dram.
I looked for Linux drivers, but can't find anything. Should I even bother? Are any of these cards capable of working with an arcade monitor? Can anyone reccomend a cheap card that would work? (Not arcadevga. Too expensive.)
Lastly, how do I configure advancecd to use a standard vertical arcade monitor?
Thanks.
dabone:
Advancecd doesn't support arcade monitors..
Try the advancemame mailing list at
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=advancemame-users
Later,
dabone
oh, and those video cards blow.. except the 6326, I've used some of those that work with advancemame, and others that won't sync up at all. Just the luck of the draw with that chipset I guess.
Trimoor:
Any suggestions on what mame flavor to use with Linux? What about frontends?
Yeah, the sis cards really suck, but it's all I have lying around. I hope I can get it to work with something. I recall being able to drive an arcade monitor through arcadeos, but I would like to use Linux. (I need to write a LPT-switch driver and don't want to waste my time doing it for dos.)
elvis:
Old S3's might work OK. I've had issues with SiS stuff also.
I've had good luck with ATi cards over the years. I'm currently building a Radeon 7000 + AdvanceMAME + SVGALib setup on Slackware 10.0 with kernel 2.6.9, and the results are quite pleasing.
The AdvanceMAME page has a complete list of linux-supported cards under each type of driver (SVGALib, FBDev and X):
http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/doc-cardlinx.html
I notice they say SiS are supported, but again they've only ever annoyed me.
Remember that for better or worse the ArcadeVGAs are just Radeon cards with hacked BIOSes. Technically speaking, anything an AVGA can do, AdvanceMAME should be able to do also, with direct modeline programming (except boot-time modes, of course).
--- Quote from: Trimoor on February 12, 2005, 05:03:38 pm ---Lastly, how do I configure advancecd to use a standard vertical arcade monitor?
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In advmame.rc you need to modify one of the rol or ror commands to force all games to rotate left or right.
For the AdvanceMenu frontend, just hit the "0" on the numerical keypad, and the screen will rotate 90 degrees (keep hitting it to continue rotating).
desmatic:
The best cards for Linux in your price range are
Riva TNT2 (built by PNY or Visiontek)
Matrox G400
ATI Rage 128 Pro (built by ATI)
ATI Radeon 7000, or 7500 (must be built by ATI)
My top pick would be either a TNT2 card (very cheap) or a Matrox G400.