[mythtv-users] mythgame not starting xmame properly ... so close ...

Andrew Chuah hachuah at gmail.com
Wed Dec 28 02:14:27 EST 2005


Mary,

Try running the xmame cmdline by itself and you should see the
problem. The cmdline is in your error message.

rgds,
andrew

On 12/27/05, Mary Strimel <mstrimel at comcast.net> wrote:
> hi,
> I compiled and installed the latest mythgame plugin on my Ubuntu 5.04
> system. When I try to start an xmame game, the screen flashes once and
> returns to the game menu. The error I can decipher from the frontend log is
> "MameRomLocation not set in mythgame-txt", but I DID set my ROM location
> properly in the mythtv setup screens, and I cannot find a file called
> "mythgame-txt" anywhere on my system. (I already followed the instructions
> to disable the joystick option under mythtv as described in the docs, so I
> don't think that's the problem). There are a couple other error-ish things
> from the log that I copied below.
> What next?
> thanks,
> Mary
>
>
> XMLParse::LoadTheme(): Can't open:
> /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/Iulius/game-ui .xml
> XMLParse::LoadTheme(): Using default theme file
> MythThemedDialog.o: something is requesting a screen update of zero size. A
> widg et probably has not done a calculateScreeArea(). Will redraw the whole
> screen (i nefficient!).
> MythThemedDialog.o: something is requesting a screen update of zero size. A
> widg et probably has not done a calculateScreeArea(). Will redraw the whole
> screen (i nefficient!).
> MameRomLocation not set in mythgame-settings.txt, using
> default./usr/games/xmame  -rompath /roms -history_file
> /var/lib/mythgame/history.dat -hiscore_directory /
> var/lib/mythgame/hiscore/ -hiscore_file
> /var/lib/mythgame/hiscore.dat -skip_disc
> laimer -noskip_gameinfo -fullscreen -noartwork -noautoframeskip  -scale
> 1 -noant
> ialias -notranslucency   -noanalogstick -nowinkeys -nograbmouse -joytype
> 0 -samp les -volume -16  -nocheat
> /usr/games/xmame -rompath  -lr "" 2>/dev/null
> 2005-12-26 03:35:31.911 Connecting to backend server: 127.0.0.1:6543 (try 1
> of 5 )
> 2005-12-26 03:35:31.918 Using protocol version 15
>
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