xmame fullscreen crashes X, locks system

nickiank · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2006 Posts: 36 Location: Chicago, IL

(I posted this under the Games forum previously, but then thought it might make more sense here. Apologies for duplication.)

So, I tried out Beryl yesterday to see what it was like, and after getting bored with it, I removed it from my system. Everything seems to be working fine, except for the fact that now, whenever I go to load any rom for xmame in fullscreen mode, X crashes without displaying any error message or dumping me at the command line, and then my system locks completely, and stops outputting a video signal. What's odd is that I can run any of my working roms just fine if I *don't* set them as full screen (i.e. run them in a window), but the fullscreen causes everything to bomb.

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whig · l33t Joined: 27 Nov 2004 Posts: 973 Location: New Zealand

Not a direct solution, but I use compiz and opengl games can crash me out of X(gl) if I don't use the xlaunch script.

nickiank · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2006 Posts: 36 Location: Chicago, IL

Well, that's the thing. I'm confused as big, weighty OpenGL applications work just fine for me ATM, even Quake4, and yet xmame just craps out inexplicably. I can't seem to replicate the behavior with any other application.

nickiank · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2006 Posts: 36 Location: Chicago, IL

Okay, correction to that last remark: just emerged and tried to run a game called rRootage and attempted to run it...same thing. I'm starting to wonder if this might have something to do with trying to switch resolutions...not sure though, honestly don't have much knowledge of how X handles such a process.

whig · l33t Joined: 27 Nov 2004 Posts: 973 Location: New Zealand

Longshot: when my apps don't work I re-emerge them. Try it with xmame.

nickiank · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2006 Posts: 36 Location: Chicago, IL

Tried xmame and xorg...no go.

maKKus · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 9:40 am Post subject:

I had crashes with SDL based games (included xmame) when running fullscreen after I intalled nvidia-drivers-1.0.9629 to try out compiz on my laptop. Compiz worked beautiful but SDL fullscreen games crashed X. Going back to nvidia-drivers-1.0.8776.ebuild resolves the crashes, but then I have no 3D desktop :cry:

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nickiank · n00b Joined: 08 Jul 2006 Posts: 36 Location: Chicago, IL

Ah, there's that seemingly obvious point I was talking about...forgot that I hadn't upgraded my nvidia driver to 1.0.9629 until I tried Beryl. 1.0.8776 works just fine. Thanks for the suggestion. Mark this problem solved!

It's worth noting that I also had to drop down to version 1.0.20060516-r1 of nvidia-settings to get all of the options back...seems that the newer version of nvidia-settings isn't fully backwards-compatible with the previous version of the driver.

maKKus · Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 6:47 pm Post subject:

Downgrading to 9626 works also and then you can use Beryl. 9626 isn't in portage anymore but you can change the 9629 ebuild and but it in /usr/local/portage.