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Title: Question about ubuntu patches for GroovyMAME
Post by: NightSprinter on September 27, 2011, 10:55:43 pm

I've sadly given up on the gentoo fork (having too much hassle trying to make portage work), and will be switching back to Ubuntu (as I read bitbytebit has made some kernel patches)  Would it be suggested to only use 10.10, or could I install 11.04 and work with the patches?  I've a Radeon X300 (and a 3000-series if I can get the right upgrade for a client in exchange), and an nVidia 9800GTX+ I'd like to test out.

Any ideas on this?

Title: Re: Question about ubuntu patches for GroovyMAME
Post by: NightSprinter on September 30, 2011, 11:04:36 pm

Anyone?  I just want to be able to enjoy MAME the way it was supposed to be enjoyed on a multi-scan monitor.  :banghead:

Title: Re: Question about ubuntu patches for GroovyMAME
Post by: Calamity on October 13, 2011, 11:59:29 am

Hi NightSprinter,

D_Skywalk from the Spanish forums has managed to port GroovyArcade patches to Ubuntu, I don't know the details but it's here in case you're still interested:

http://www.retrovicio.org/foro/showthread.php?14969-GroovyArcade-Por-fin-100-Pixel-Perfect-y-mucho-mas/page19 (http://www.retrovicio.org/foro/showthread.php?14969-GroovyArcade-Por-fin-100-Pixel-Perfect-y-mucho-mas/page19)

Title: Re: Question about ubuntu patches for GroovyMAME
Post by: gabe on October 17, 2011, 02:47:38 pm

I would advise against it. I was able to mostly recreate Groovy in Arch Linux, however for reasons unknown to me (or bitbytebit) MAME would always crash when trying to load games with dotclocks below 5.911MHz.

I can tell you that at a minimum, you will need to patch & compile particular versions of the kernel, SDL, and of course MAME. Additionally, you may have to upgrade/downgrade  and recompile certain video components.

I documented the kernel compilation process here:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=107620.msg1193204#msg1193204 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=107620.msg1193204#msg1193204)

Best of luck!