2014-04-28, 06:03
I thought it would add MAME to my HTPC as I like to play the odd arcade game from time to time, installed advanced launcher and setup MAME as per the wiki,. What I get is a black screen when launching a rom.
My config
Ubuntu 12.04 (kernel updated to 3.13.5)
XBMC 12.3
I do not run a window manager and Linux boots into XBMC via an upstart job as per the XBMC wiki
The black screen issue is to do with not running a Window manager like Gnome.
Testing the emulator I can stop XBMC and lunch MAME as follows.
This lunches MAME and loads Exerion no problem (well sound was missing but fixed that with an asound.conf file)
Is their a more elegant way to launch the emulator from within XBMC without resorting to installing a GDM
My config
Ubuntu 12.04 (kernel updated to 3.13.5)
XBMC 12.3
I do not run a window manager and Linux boots into XBMC via an upstart job as per the XBMC wiki
The black screen issue is to do with not running a Window manager like Gnome.
Testing the emulator I can stop XBMC and lunch MAME as follows.
Code:
#!/bin/sh
exec su -c "xinit /usr/games/mame exerion -- -nocursor :0" xbmc
This lunches MAME and loads Exerion no problem (well sound was missing but fixed that with an asound.conf file)
Is their a more elegant way to launch the emulator from within XBMC without resorting to installing a GDM