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General / New problem

« on: February 19, 2023, 01:54:13 PM »

Ok, new approach.  I've got everything looking good in Windows 8.1.  However, when I launch the game from Attract Mode, the keyboard does not respond once in the emulator.  The keyboard is still on (the caps lock and num lock lights turn on).  It's just that MAME is not responding to input.  Can't go into MAME setup with tab, can't exit with escape... nothing.

When I launch a game from MAME.exe or Arcade64 it works, but when I launch from AM, no keyboard response.

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Themes / Trouble displaying themes

« on: February 18, 2023, 03:59:59 PM »

I was able to get AM up and running pretty well in Windows, but now I'm on Linux, and am having difficulties.  Attract mode runs, and launches games flawlessly; it's the appearance that leaves a little to be desired.

The only theme that displays properly is "Basic".  All others show the preview video on the whole screen, and a list of the games in VERY large font (see image).

What adjustments and where do I need to get these things to properly display?

I've updated my graphic card driver, and played around with the resolution (albeit in GUI, not through XRANDR).

Where to start troubleshooting?

The system:

16GiB System memory
Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen C
6th-10th Gen Core Processor PCIe Con
HD Graphics 530

UBUNTU 22.04
Attract mode V2.6.2
MAME 0.251

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General / Edit Emulator Menu

« on: February 13, 2023, 04:37:04 AM »

Well, thanks to much help from the community here I have Attract Mode up and running, kind of.  It lists the games, and plays the games.  However, I am unable to load any layouts.  It displays a list of the games, and can scroll through them.

I think it's worth mentioning, all of the fields in the below image were populated by manually typing in the text.  I wasn't able to scroll through to find "listxml" or browse to find any directories.

I suspect it has to do with my setup directories, but am unsure... any help would be appreciated.

16GiB System memory
Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen C
6th-10th Gen Core Processor PCIe Con
HD Graphics 530

UBUNTU 22.04
Attract mode V2.6.2
MAME 0.251

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General / Ubuntu setup issues

« on: February 11, 2023, 09:51:50 AM »

I am trying to install Attract mode from command line in Linux Ubuntu 22.04. 

When I run the command "xrandr -q" I get the results shown below:

I'm not a Linux guy, and could really use some help.  Let me know if I need to supply any more information.

When I run "make" from the directory where the Attract Mode download is located I get the following error:

Compiling obj/fe_present.o...
src/fe_present.cpp:42:10: fatal error: X11/extensions/Xrandr.h: No such file or directory
   42 | #include <X11/extensions/Xrandr.h>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make: *** [Makefile:486: obj/fe_present.o] Error 1

System as follows:

16GiB System memory
Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen C
6th-10th Gen Core Processor PCIe Con
HD Graphics 530

UBUNTU 22.04
Attract mode V2.6.2
MAME 0.251

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General / Setup issue

« on: January 28, 2023, 07:34:01 PM »

I thought I had everything ready to roll.  MAME .251 is all set up and running.  I have a COMPLETE rom/chd set for MAME .251.

So when I try to start Attract Mode I get through 4 screens.

1. Language (I select English no problem)
2. Attract-Mode detected emulator(s) that can be imported automatically.  Import them now?  (yes)
3. Generating Rom List

This whole process takes several minutes, and while "Generating Rom List" it just crashes. 

Windows 10
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X Core 12
AMD Radeon RX 9700 XT GPU
MAME .251
Attract Mode

Any insight or help would be appreciated.