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Title: MAME on Linux
Post by: USSEnterprise on July 01, 2005, 10:41:18 pm

I just got my PC running Ubuntu Linux. Is there a MAME build that I can use for this?

Title: Re: MAME on Linux
Post by: monkeybomb on July 01, 2005, 10:51:25 pm

You can find all that kind of stuff on this site, if you don't already know.
http://www.mameworld.net/


I think this is the linux port.
http://x.mame.net/index.orig.html

Title: Re: MAME on Linux
Post by: elvis on July 02, 2005, 07:49:50 am

Quote from: USSEnterprise on July 01, 2005, 10:41:18 pm

I just got my PC running Ubuntu Linux. Is there a MAME build that I can use for this?

From a command line:

apt-get update
apt-get install xmame
apt-get install gxmame

Installing programs on Debian-based distros like Ubuntu is easier than falling off a log. :)

Title: Re: MAME on Linux
Post by: USSEnterprise on July 02, 2005, 01:46:10 pm

I'm having a problem in ubuntu. I have a prompt, but there is no GUI. Can anyone help?

Title: Re: MAME on Linux
Post by: D10 on July 02, 2005, 03:02:22 pm

Could be a couple of things.

First did you get any errors about either the xserver or the GUI, or did it just load to the command line?

if it loaded to the CLI trying running startX or change the run level to init5.

check out the ubuntu forums at http://www.ubuntuforums.org that would be the best place to get answers for these questons.

Ubuntu is a good distro enjoy/

Title: Re: MAME on Linux
Post by: USSEnterprise on July 02, 2005, 04:30:22 pm

I just noticed when booting that it said it coldn't start something having to do with the "Xserver", but I still get a command prompt. The disc I used is straight from ubuntu, not from an ISO

Title: Re: MAME on Linux
Post by: elvis on July 05, 2005, 01:27:16 am

The error you are giving us is not detailed enough.

Search through the contents of the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file and post the relavent bits that reavel what is broken.

There's a good chance your video driver is not recognised.  What hardware (CPU, chipset, video card) are you using with this system?

Title: Re: MAME on Linux
Post by: USSEnterprise on July 05, 2005, 04:28:39 am

nevermind on the first problem. I got into the GUI. New problem occured. When I entered the GUI, my monitor went crazy. it almost looked like the vertical hold was off. Then my monitor flashed "INVALID SCAN FREQ.". I checked the monitor on another PC and it works fine. The computer's video is also fine, as it is normal when I see the IBM splashscreen. It is an IBM 300GL, 300MHz Pentium II, Intel chipset, and Cirrus Logic onboard video 546X