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whammoed:
Well, you won't be able to run at the original resolution exactly but I would think you should be able to at least find something to use at the original Vertical refresh.

Major Rock Hardy:
Mr. whammoed, thank you again...

I will try the display_adjust clock line.

I would love to run advv - but as far as I can tell when I emerged advancemame on gentoo, it did not build the advv or advcfg binaries. Is there a trick for this, like manually editing a build script or something on the emerge commandline? Sorry for the gentoo noob question.

Thanks,
Rock

whammoed:
This was fixed in newest advmame release 102. Installing it should work now for the utilities.

Major Rock Hardy:
cool, I will re-emerge tonight and report results... do you happen to know if it applies the fb patches when it builds? Or wait, I would have to rebuild my kernel with the fb patches that come with advmame, correct? Do you know if the emerge build patches the kernel source?

thanks again,
Rock

elvis:

--- Quote from: Major Rock Hardy on December 07, 2005, 05:33:39 pm ---cool, I will re-emerge tonight and report results... do you happen to know if it applies the fb patches when it builds? Or wait, I would have to rebuild my kernel with the fb patches that come with advmame, correct? Do you know if the emerge build patches the kernel source?

thanks again,
Rock

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Gentoo does not apply the fb nor svgalib patches when compiling from portage.

However the patches supplied by the advmame authors are generally only for low-res (15KHz) modes anyway. If you're using a 31KHz VGA monitor, you don't generally need these patches.

If you are using an arcade monitor and want to use low res modes, I suggest downloading the advmame source and compiling it yourself manually (including the fb patches against the kernel), rather than letting gentoo portage deal with it.

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