[mythtv-users] Re: Multiple questions from a mythtv newbie...

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Wed Dec 14 20:54:41 EST 2005


For the record, I also have an issue with this, but I don't play  
games much, so I let it go after a couple of hours of playing with  
settings and looking up info about it. I'm running 0.102 as well.

On Dec 14, 2005, at 8:20 PM, El Burro wrote:

> On 12/14/05, El Burro <daburro at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 1.  MythGame
> >>
> >> I seem to still have a problem with MythGame starting.  It  
> complains that
>
> >> the version of xmame is not supported.  From what I can tell  
> from looking in
> >> past messages, all that Myth is doing is a 'xmame -version'  
> command to
> >> validate that xmame is working.  Is this correct?  I'm using
> xmame.102 and
> >> it works fine if I start it manually.  It will also show the  
> version
> >> correctly (though I do get some Glide error that doesn't seem to  
> effect
> >> anything).  I've also double (and triple) checked my settings,  
> as I've
>
> >> believe that this error message that I'm getting is displayed  
> for any
> >> configuration error with MythGame.  I've also tried and modify  
> the DB to
> >> reflect that I have no joystick (as mentioned in the MythGame docs
>
> >> somewhere...) but that doesn't seem to have any effect either.
> >
> >
> >9 times out of 10, this problem is because the MythGame settings  
> have the
> >wrong path to xmame.
> >
>
> >Carl Fongheiser
>
> Yep.  That's what I understood.  But given the below, I don't see  
> where I might have gotten the path wrong...
>
> Any other tricks to try?
>
>      - T
>
>
> [root at mythtv ~]# mysql -u root -p -e "select * from  
> mythconverg.settings" | gre
> p Mame
> Enter password:
> XMameBinary     /usr/bin/xmame  mythtv
> MameRomLocation /usr/share/xmame/roms   mythtv
> XMameCatFile    /usr/share/xmame/catver.ini     mythtv
> MameScreensLocation     /usr/share/xmame/screens        mythtv
> MameScoresDirectory     /usr/share/xmame        mythtv
> MameScoresFile  /usr/share/xmame/hiscore.dat    mythtv
> MameFlyersLocation      /usr/share/xmame/flyers mythtv
> MameCabinetsLocation    /usr/share/xmame/cab    mythtv
> MameHistoryLocation     /usr/share/xmame/history.dat    mythtv
> MameCheatLocation               mythtv
> MameImageDownloader             mythtv
> MameAutomaticallyDownloadImages 0       mythtv
> MameShowDisclaimer      0       mythtv
> MameShowGameInfo        0       mythtv
> [root at mythtv ~]# which xmame
> /usr/bin/xmame
> [root at mythtv ~]# ls -la /usr/bin/xmame
> -rwxr-sr-x  1 root games 43488152 Nov 28 03:24 /usr/bin/xmame
> [root at mythtv ~]# file /usr/bin/xmame
> /usr/bin/xmame: setgid ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64,  
> version 1 (SYSV),
> for GNU/Linux 2.4.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/ 
> Linux 2.4.0,
>  stripped
> [root at mythtv ~]# /usr/bin/xmame -version
> xmame (x11) version 0.102 (Nov 28 2005)
> [root at mythtv ~]#
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