xmame-x appears to be broken in maverick

[Reuben Thomas]

Binary package hint: xmame-x

Running xmame, I get:

$ xmame
GLINFO: loaded OpenGL library libGL.so!
GLINFO: loaded GLU library libGLU.so!
GLINFO: glColorSubTableEXT (2): not implemented !
XDGAOpenFramebuffer failed
Use of DGA-modes is disabled
error: compiled byte ordering doesn't match machine byte ordering.
compiled for MSB first, are you sure you chose the right cpu in makefile.unix?

I checked this was nothing to do with my configuration my renaming my ~/.xmame directory temporarily, which gave the identical error message.

This was all working just before I upgraded from lucid.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: xmame-x 0.106-3.2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 8 21:24:18 2010
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SourcePackage: xmame

[Reuben Thomas (rrt)]

This is also a problem with xmess-x, and xmame-sdl. Basically, xmame is broken.

At first I thought the fix was mame (aka sdlmame) but that turns out to run too slowly, so it's not a real solution for me yet. A working xmame would therefore be nice...

[Reuben Thomas (rrt)]

Eventually I got sdlmame to run at a decent speed. Since x-mame development seems to have stopped and sdlmame development continues, perhaps it would be better to remove x-mame from Ubuntu and concentrate on making sdlmame work better. That's what I intend to do now...

[Jesús Basco (teamcpc)]

I cannot run xmame, I add to ubuntu 10.10 these packages:

sudo bash
apt-get update
apt-get -y upgrade
apt-get install mc dosbox virtualbox-ose gimp-gap blockattack supertuxkart wine pdfsam foobillard billard-gl chromium-browser xmame-common gparted partimage php5 mysql-server-5.1 apache2 php5-cli php5-mysql jclic stellarium blender inkscape cheese inkblot filezilla xgalaga kbattleship tennix tuxtype freemind xchm calibre jedit netbeans arista audacity winff xvidcap kaffeine libboost-thread1.42-dev tidy unoconv xmame-x

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.