[mythtv] mythgame + xmame.x11 + xv

Isaac Richards mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Mon, 25 Nov 2002 02:08:22 -0500


On Sunday 24 November 2002 10:12 pm, Chris Liscio wrote:
> Apparently the above don't play nice.  In particular, I am trying to get
> xmame.x11 running with xv scaler support (scales games perfectly to fit the
> screen), and it fails to start up under mythgame.
>
> To be a bit more precise.  I set my ~/.xmame/xmamerc to include the
> following line: "xv 1" and just start mythgame from the command line (i.e.
> mythfrontend is not running).
>
> Is this conflict resolvable at all?  I can run xmame.x11 at the command
> line with no problems whatsoever, but apparently mythgame doesn't want to
> play...In fact, the machine is only stoppable with a ctrl-alt-bksp, but
> then again, I haven't been able to get an alt-f4 equivalent working in fvwm
> quite yet...
>
> Any help/comments would be appreciated.

There really shouldn't be a conflict -- you may want to stick a line into the 
mythgame source to see what the actual command line it's using is, though.

Isaac