Re: [advancemame-users] AdvMAME Opens in Tiny Window
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Re: [advancemame-users] AdvMAME Opens in Tiny Window
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From: Robinson, E. <eri...@ps...> - 2008-11-04 00:10:20
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I just picked up my TV and attached it to the component output of the ATI Radeon 7500 card. The PC monitor is still attached to the VGA port. The Linux console appears on the PC monitor. The TV displays some garbled video that I can sort of tell is the console screen. I know because when I press the arrow keys, stuff moves on the TV screen, but it is completely unreadable. Any ideas how I can make the Linux console appear on the TV correctly? Then I can get rid of the PC monitor. Alternatively, if I can keep the console on the PC monitor (for maintenance) but make the games appear on the TV, that could work too, although it is definitely not my first choice. I messed around with advcfg, but when I select "NTSC TV" it errors out with the message, "Calibration mode unsupported. The video mode is incompatibe with the monitor limitations." -- Eric Robinson Director of Information Technology Physician Select Management, LLC 775.885.2211 x 111 ________________________________ From: John W. Cocula [mailto:jo...@co...] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 10:19 AM To: Robinson, Eric Cc: adv...@li... Subject: Re: [advancemame-users] AdvMAME Opens in Tiny Window I recall that getting the monitor timing right was tricky, but the end results were worth the trial-and-error with the advcfg and advv utilities. I recall something about the vesafb driver not being capable of the fine-grained control possible in card-specific fb drivers, for what that's worth. I used a multisync arcade monitor with much lower resolutions than yours, but if you following the docs on setting up the monitor settings, you are likely to have success. John On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Robinson, Eric <eri...@ps...> wrote: I tried 'display_ror yes' but now the monitor says "sync out of range." The monitor is a 19" CRT with a max resolution of 1600x1200. Any ideas? -- Eric Robinson ________________________________ From: John W. Cocula [mailto:jo...@co...] Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 9:04 AM To: Robinson, Eric Cc: adv...@li... Subject: Re: [advancemame-users] AdvMAME Opens in Tiny Window On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Robinson, Eric <eri...@ps...> wrote: I recompiled my kernel using the fb driver and AdvanceMAME now rocks! Thanks for reminding me about this. Very happy to hear it! One quick question: Do you know if there's a way to rotate games 90 degrees so the vertical ones will look right on a PC monitor turned on its side? Yes, indeed. Put the line display_ror yes in your ~/.advance/advmame.rc file. There is a goldmine of options in the advmame.rc file! John -- Eric Robinson ________________________________ From: John W. Cocula [mailto:jo...@co...] Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 10:21 AM To: Robinson, Eric Cc: adv...@li... Subject: Re: [advancemame-users] AdvMAME Opens in Tiny Window Eric, I believe the big performance bottleneck that you're seeing is that it's running in an X-based window and not using the frame-buffer driver directly. Try to build and run AdvMAME using the fb driver, with X completely not running, and you will see dramatically better video performance. I'm afraid my detailed set of tip and tricks is too distant in the past, but a few details of my system are here: http://cocula/content/cocktail-table-arcade-machine <http://cocu.la/content/cocktail-table-arcade-machine> John On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Robinson, Eric <eri...@ps...> wrote: > Newbie here! > > I was told that MAME works well on low-power computers. I don't know if this applies to AdvMAME as well. I have Linux (2.6.9.34) installed on an 800MHz Dell with 384MB RAM and an ATI Radeon 7500 card. When I start MAME, it opens in a tiny 2" window. If I try to use AdvMAME's features to make the window bigger, the game's frame rate slows down to a crawl. If I switch to "full screen mode" the game (1943kai) gets bigger and runs at normal speed, but it still leaves about 1.5 inches of black screen at the top and bottom. Is there anything I can do to make to games run full screen at normal speed aside from buying a much faster computer? > > --Eric Disclaimer - November 3, 2008 This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for John W. Cocula,adv...@li.... If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute, copy or alter this email. Any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and might not represent those of . Warning: Although has taken reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email, the company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage arising from the use of this email or attachments. This disclaimer was added by Policy Patrol: http://www.policypatrol.com <http://www.policypatrol.com/> |