[mythtv-users] Problems with libvisual (MythMusic) and xmame (MythGame)

[Arthur Green]

Timothee Groleau wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm still setting up components of my mythtv box and I'm having the following 
> issues. I'm on a amd64 gentoo machine with kernel 2.6.25-r7, Xorg X11 7.2, 
> ATI drivers 8.522, mythTV 0.21_p18116

I've been struggling with getting ATI fglrx set up properly on Fedora 8 
x86_64. Could you post your xorg.conf?

[ ... ]

> 2) this issue is not specific to mythtv but I figured some of you may know: 
> xmame refuses to start (both from mythfrontend and standalone at the command 
> line), and I can't find what's wrong. I get the following message:
> ==========
> #xmame.x11 /path/to/rom
> [snip]
> MIT-SHM Extension Available. trying to use...
> Error: failed to create MITSHM block.
> video_init failed
> ==========
> 
> the shared memory is mounted as follow:
> ==========
> #mount
> shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
> ==========
> 
> xmame was emerged with the following use flags:
> games-emulation/xmame-0.106  USE="X alsa joystick opengl 
> sdl -arts -dga -esd -expat -ggi -lirc (-mmx) -net (-svga) -xinerama -xv"

Guessing here - maybe there's a permission issue on /dev/shm?

> Any help would be much appreciated,
> Tim.
> 

  - Arthur