After much tinkering I finally got advmame to fire up Donkey Kong! It was a problem with the framebuffer driver. Sort of. :-) The site that the driver originally came from used an old style of separating the boot args. It said that you separate args with a : and the values with an =. Well, under the 2.6.11 kernel it's args with a , and values with a : This is what I'm using for a boot arg: video=i810fb:xres:1024,bpp:16,hsync1:30,hsync2:65,vsync1:50,vsync2:100,accel,mtrr Unfortunately it...

I wrote about starting to set up a Linux box for the sole purpose of running MAME almost a year ago on alt.games.mame. See this article to see how far I got (or didn't get). Now I'm back on that project again since I'm setting up a fifth MAME cabinet (with a vertical oriented monitor), and quite possibly a sixth (horizontal) soon. All the previous ones have been all Windoze based. Since I messed with this so long ago, I've forgotten half of what I did to get what I barely got...