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Afterburner:
I recently decided to rotate through my hardware (everyone gets an upgrade, right?) and replace my 11 year old 1Gz PIII box that is in my dedicated cab with a mere 7 year old Athlon XP 1800 with 1GB of RAM.

Unfortunately, taking the HDD drive out of the old box and dropping it into the new one did not work.  WinXP refused to even attempt to boot.  It just stayed in a boot loop...even if I tried safe mode.

So I grabbed the Fedora 12 Live CD and installed it onto the HDD.  I installed SDLMame and GMameUI.

Things seem to be working OK, however, I have noticed that I cannot get MAME to recognize my second trackball as a device for Player 2.

I have two X-Arcade 3" trackballs mounted in my CP.  One (Player 1) is connected via PS2.  The other (Player 2) is connected via USB.

Both work fine in X-Windows.  Both work in mame.  However, I am unable to get mame to assign the second trackball to be a P2 device.  Anytime I try to configure controls, either trackball I move registers as Mouse 1 X/Y.

I'm sure I just need to tweak a config file somewhere.....but I don't know which one.  Any help?

Smack:
I had been running SDL Mame under ubuntu for a while and had the same problem.

When I had looked into it, if I recall correctly, SDL 1.2 doesnt support multiple mice, but SDL 1.3 does. At that time, I had given up and hadn't looked back into it. I recall reading something like that on the SDL Mame boards and something along the lines that it would be incorporated once SDL 1.3 dropped.

Dunno if things changed, I haven't upgraded my cab in a while and just said screw it for now. :D

Smack

Arbee:
That is correct.  SDL 1.2 does not support multiple mice as separate devices (and the support for it in X itself is a relatively recent thing).  1.3 (which will likely be called 2.0 when it's released) supports multiple everything cleanly - keyboards, mice, monitors, etc.  There is preliminary SDL 1.3 support in SDLMAME for the adventurous, but you'll want to talk to Couriersud on the SDLMAME board for the state of that.

Pitou:
Hello,

I'm having the same issue with sdlmame and multi pointer. Since Xorg/xinput/mpx is now a reality, does anybody know if sdlmame now supports multiple pointers?

I also started another thread.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,140562.msg1455094.html#msg1455094

@Arbee, can you point me to the right direction for the sdlmame board and Couriersud?

Thank you.

Pitou!

Haze:
http://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=postlist&Board=8&page=1
official SDL MAME forum

afaik SDL 2 support is still experimental and not the default, so I doubt much has changed in the last 4 years.

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