trying to run xmame on Fedora 5, loads but doesn't play

I downloaded the current xmame (version 0.106) off x.mame.net
and compiled it on Fedora 5 Linux. The compile worked
fine but when I start it up with a rom, it loads them (in
this case for xevious), says "done" and then doesn't do
anything. Just wondering if anyone has a clue what
could hang that up. I compiled with GCC 4.1.1 and set it
up to use X11 and XV, I know FC5 has Xv because I ran
xvinfo. I have xevious.zip so I tried that:

$> xmame.x11 xevious
info: trying to parse: /usr/local/share/xmame/xmamerc
info: trying to parse: /home/user/.xmame/xmamerc
info: trying to parse: /usr/local/share/xmame/xmame-x11rc
info: trying to parse: /home/user/.xmame/xmame-x11rc
info: trying to parse: /usr/local/share/xmame/rc/xeviousrc
info: trying to parse: /home/user/.xmame/rc/xeviousrc
loading rom 0: xvi_1.3p
loading rom 1: xvi_2.3m
loading rom 2: xvi_3.2m
loading rom 3: xvi_4.2l
loading rom 4: xvi_5.3f
loading rom 5: xvi_6.3j
loading rom 6: xvi_7.2c
loading rom 7: xvi_12.3b
loading rom 8: xvi_13.3c
loading rom 9: xvi_14.3d
loading rom 10: xvi_15.4m
loading rom 11: xvi_17.4p
loading rom 12: xvi_16.4n
loading rom 13: xvi_18.4r
loading rom 14: xvi_9.2a
loading rom 15: xvi_10.2b
loading rom 16: xvi_11.2c
loading rom 17: xvi_8bpr.6a
loading rom 18: xvi_9bpr.6d
loading rom 19: xvi10bpr.6e
loading rom 20: xvi_7bpr.4h
loading rom 21: xvi_6bpr.4f
loading rom 22: xvi_4bpr.3l
loading rom 23: xvi_5bpr.3m
loading rom 24: xvi_2bpr.7n
loading rom 25: xvi_1bpr.5n
done
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The docs say make sure the DISPLAY variable is ok,
mine is set to :0.0 which should be ok since I'm
running on my local box. If it hadn't found and been
able to unzip the rom, then it should have said "NOT FOUND"
for each rom, so I think it's finding the rom files ok.
(I tried a name of a mame supported rom that I
don't have to try that out)

Mark

Mark wrote on 06. September 2006:
>
> I downloaded the current xmame (version 0.106) off x.mame.net
> and compiled it on Fedora 5 Linux. The compile worked
> fine but when I start it up with a rom, it loads them (in
> this case for xevious), says "done" and then doesn't do
> anything. Just wondering if anyone has a clue what
> could hang that up.

I sometimes, cannot say when, have this too. I usually kill the X server
and restart it and it works again.
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