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Title: Need help installing SVGAlib for use with AdvanceMAME on Redhat FC5
Post by: displacedtexan on June 02, 2006, 10:13:19 pm

OK all the Linux gurus out there...

I am trying to install Advancemame on my newly built cocktail cab so that I can get games with different resolutions to work correctly.

I installed FC5, updated it, installed SDL (via yum), installed SVGAlib (from RPM via yum svgalib.i386 0:1.9.24-2.fc5), and installed advancemame (from source).  Everything works, but I am pretty sure Advancemame is using the SDL drivers.

I tried putting the following in my advmame.rc file:
device_video svgalib

and I get this:

Invalid argument 'svgalib' for option 'device_video'
Valid values are:
auto Automatic detection
fb Frame Buffer video
sdl SDL video
none No video
Error loading the video configuration.

I recompiled and re-installed advancemame and still get the same thing.

I have also tried adding:
alias char-major-209 svgalib_helper

to my /etc/modprobe.conf
and still doesn't work

Any ideas what's going on?  I think I would probably have problems installing svgalib from source on Redhat, but that may be what I need to do...

Anybody else have any ideas that may help me!!

Thanks!!

Title: Re: Need help installing SVGAlib for use with AdvanceMAME on Redhat FC5
Post by: displacedtexan on June 03, 2006, 05:10:06 pm

I have made a few baby steps forward... I installed svgalib-devel and recompiled advancemame.  Now I get this when running advancemame:

Unable to initialize the video driver. The errors are:
svgalib: Unsupported without the svgalib library.

What linux distributions have people used to successfully install advancemame using svgalib?

Thanks!!