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Major Rock Hardy:
OK, did the f11 test for suprmrio - says Auto 100% - 8?% - it flickers around 84% most of
the time. Occasionally the game will hang and then the f11 display will then blink briefly to what appears to be Auto 1??% - 1??% (both numbers > 100), then back to ~84%. The coin up and game play didn't seem to move it much from 84%, which is what it shows during attract mode.

Also, I should probably note that I have X running on console 7 and I switch
to console 2 to log in as root when I run in fb mode from the cmd line. I
would assume that since I've switched consoles, that X shouldn't be
interfering... well, I tried it to be sure - I exited from X and that didn't make a difference.

For comparison purposes, I fired up mspacman again and it was a solid 100%, occasionally blinking a 98% or something (so fast I couldn't see it). Great authentic flickery video!

OK, here is my .advance/advmame.rc:
------snip---------
device_video fb
device_video_clock 25.2 - 202.5 / 30 - 96 / 48 - 120
device_video_interlace no
device_video_output fullscreen
dir_artwork /home/sloaner/.advance/artwork:/usr/share/games/advance/artwork
dir_diff /home/sloaner/.advance/diff
dir_hi /home/sloaner/.advance/hi
dir_image /home/sloaner/.advance/image:/usr/share/games/advance/image
dir_inp /home/sloaner/.advance/inp
dir_memcard /home/sloaner/.advance/memcard
dir_nvram /home/sloaner/.advance/nvram
dir_rom /home/sloaner/.advance/rom:/usr/share/games/advance/rom:/ntfs/roms
dir_sample /home/sloaner/.advance/sample:/usr/share/games/advance/sample:/ntfs/samples
dir_snap /home/sloaner/.advance/snap:/ntfs/snap
dir_sta /home/sloaner/.advance/sta
display_resizeeffect none
------snip---------

you'll notice ranges given for device_video_clock - these were for a Dell Ultrascan P990 Multisync monitor. I guessed at the range of pclock values but the others came from here:
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/monitors/p990/specs.htm

Thanks again,
Rock

Major Rock Hardy:
Also, I forgot to mention, I used the -log option when running these tests. I uploaded them to a buddy's
webserver... here they are, but mind the file sizes:

http://www.ninjaboot.com/suprmrio_log.txt (25 MB)
and
http://www.ninjaboot.com/mspacman_log.txt (1.9 MB)

thanks again,
Rock

Major Rock Hardy:

--- Quote from: elvis on December 06, 2005, 12:19:57 am ---Which FBDev device are you using (ie: what did you compile intro your kernel)? SVGA FBDev won't work very well with Advmame. Make sure you are using the proper radeon one.

--- End quote ---

I did a grep FB /usr/src/linux/.config and here were the results:

# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD is not set
CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_FILLRECT=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_COPYAREA=y
CONFIG_FB_CFB_IMAGEBLIT=y
CONFIG_FB_SOFT_CURSOR=y
# CONFIG_FB_MACMODES is not set
CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS=y
# CONFIG_FB_TILEBLITTING is not set
# CONFIG_FB_CIRRUS is not set
# CONFIG_FB_PM2 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_CYBER2000 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_ARC is not set
# CONFIG_FB_ASILIANT is not set
# CONFIG_FB_IMSTT is not set
# CONFIG_FB_VGA16 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_VESA is not set
# CONFIG_FB_HGA is not set
# CONFIG_FB_NVIDIA is not set
# CONFIG_FB_RIVA is not set
# CONFIG_FB_I810 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_INTEL is not set
# CONFIG_FB_MATROX is not set
# CONFIG_FB_RADEON_OLD is not set
CONFIG_FB_RADEON=y
CONFIG_FB_RADEON_I2C=y
CONFIG_FB_RADEON_DEBUG=y
# CONFIG_FB_ATY128 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_ATY is not set
# CONFIG_FB_SAVAGE is not set
# CONFIG_FB_SIS is not set
# CONFIG_FB_NEOMAGIC is not set
# CONFIG_FB_KYRO is not set
# CONFIG_FB_3DFX is not set
# CONFIG_FB_VOODOO1 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_CYBLA is not set
# CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT is not set
# CONFIG_FB_GEODE is not set
# CONFIG_FB_S1D13XXX is not set
# CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set

... so it looks like the CONFIG_FB_RADEON is correct - I'll try the RADEON_OLD in a minute

thanks always,
Rock

Major Rock Hardy:
OK, tried the old radeon driver, that didn't work even for mspacman... I got:

No video modes available for the current game.
Unable to start video emulation

:-\

EDIT: OOPS! I had tweaked some device_video_clock numbers to cause this failure - not a scientific test, but I retried with the correct numbers and the changing to the old radeon driver still didn't fix the suprmrio problem

whammoed:
oh yeah,

try changing advmame.rc with this setting:
device_sound none

this will turn off the sound and narrow down the problem to either your audio or video config. I'm sure either one can cause your choppy play. Play a troublesome game with hitting f11 to see if you can get smooth play. A 2.4 ghz processor should be plenty to run all but the few oddball games at full speed.

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