Problem with zsnes and Linux Ubuntu

ibeleaf · Post by **ibeleaf** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 2:38 am

Hi, i've been using zsnes for years now on windows, and i jsut recently installed ubuntu on my system, and i was using zsnes for about a week with no problems,

but now when i launch zsnes the program will pop up for about a second and then just dissappear like it never existed... it's quite frustrating as i cant figure out what's causing it.

any help would be appreciated

note: im familiar enough with ubuntu, but not as much so as i was with windows, so a good explanation is probably needed if anyone knows a solution.

kevman · Post by **kevman** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:10 am

To see what the error is that is causing Zsnes to crash, you have to run it from a terminal. Open up a terminal and type Zsnes. Post the result here.

ibeleaf · Post by **ibeleaf** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:42 am

here's everything...

david@david-laptop:~$ zsnes
ZSNES v1.51, (c) 1997-2007, ZSNES Team
Be sure to check http://www.zsnes.com/ for the latest version.

ZSNES is written by the ZSNES Team (See AUTHORS.TXT)
ZSNES comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions;
please read 'LICENSE.TXT' thoroughly before doing so.

Use ZSNES -? for command line definitions.

Starting Mouse detection.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event2. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event6. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event5. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event7. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event4. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event3. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event0. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event1. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
ManyMouse: 0 mice detected.
Creating link /home/david/.kde/socket-david-laptop.
can't create mcop directory
david@david-laptop:~$

seems to be talking about a mouse a lot... my mouse is working fine and such...any ideas?

ibeleaf · Post by **ibeleaf** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:44 am

maybe if i try zsnes -d?

i know that goes into debug, but ill wait for someone with some advice cause i don't really know what i'm doin and i don't wanna screw it up worse.

DancemasterGlenn · Post by **DancemasterGlenn** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:45 am

sudo mkdir /home/david/.kde/socket-david-laptop

Should work now.

ibeleaf · Post by **ibeleaf** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:54 am

works! thanks a bunch guys!

KSib · Post by **KSib** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 3:12 am

I have a problem that produces similar output to David's, but I have a different problem; there is no sound.

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ksib@ksib-pc:~$ zsnes
ZSNES v1.51, (c) 1997-2007, ZSNES Team
Be sure to check http://www.zsnes.com/ for the latest version.

ZSNES is written by the ZSNES Team (See AUTHORS.TXT)
ZSNES comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software,
and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions;
please read 'LICENSE.TXT' thoroughly before doing so.

Use ZSNES -? for command line definitions.

Starting Mouse detection.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event10. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event9. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event8. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event7. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event5. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event6. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event3. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event4. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event1. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event0. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event2. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
ManyMouse: 0 mice detected.

Audio Opened.
Driver: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) output
Channels: 2
Rate: 48000

ZSNES could not find any joysticks.

I tried using the line

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sudo mkdir /home/ksib/.kde/socket-ksib-pc

but that didn't work for me. I got the output...

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ksib@ksib-pc:~$ sudo mkdir /home/ksib/.kde/socket-ksib-pc 
mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/ksib/.kde/socket-ksib-pc': No such file or directory

Any suggestions? Thanks.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 3:24 am

Try using OSS or some other libao option.

KSib · Post by **KSib** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 5:18 am

libao? Maybe I should have stated that I'm also a Windows user and just installed Ubuntu.

EDIT: Nevermind... I found the fix... I had to change something in the zsnesl.cfg file

libAoDriver="auto"
to
libAoDriver="sdl"

http://pearsfyh.blogspot.com/2007/11/so ... -tips.html

I hope this helps those out who just installed Ubuntu 8.10 (Hardy Heron)

Thanks for everything

ZH/Franky · Post by **ZH/Franky** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 4:02 pm

Just to save you from getting burned elsewhere (particularly, on forums where there are many Linux users).

Don't pronounce the distro name after Linux. By the rules of the English language, "Linux Ubuntu" means that "Ubuntu" is owned by Linux, or that "Linux" is modifying "Ubuntu".

It is "Ubuntu Linux". Because the developers are taking "Linux" (and other GNU GPL/LGPL / whatever components) and modifing it. But All these things wrap around the kernel, Linux. So we call it Ubuntu Linux, in the same way we have "Slackware Linux", "Arch Linux", etc.

I really don't mean to nitpick. I'm actually doing you a favour.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 5:36 pm

Does it really matter?

This is not a port specific forum and frankly I'd rather have people give as much info as they can instead of giving very little info such as "Linux" without mentioning what distro they are using.

ZH/Franky · Post by **ZH/Franky** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 6:15 pm

I'm just saying is all. If he goes to say, ubuntuforums.org, and says "Linux Ubuntu", people will dismiss him as "ignorant". I'm not saying that will happen here, or places similiar; only in places where moronic zealous rules.

I don't want to be horrible, but those are the facts.
Usually I wouldn't care, but I thought "hey, why don't I just spend 10 seconds explaining it to him, eh?".

Post by **grinvader** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 8:28 pm

Just say the distro name ffs, noone's dense enough to nitpick about that... and if anyone is, ignore him.

ZH/Franky · Post by **ZH/Franky** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 8:55 pm

I'm just saying, that's all. I could easily keep schtum. Anyway, sorry for derailing the thread (has it?).

Post by **Nach** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 9:05 pm

grinvader wrote:Just say the distro name ffs, noone's dense enough to nitpick about that... and if anyone is, ignore him.

It's only an issue with the distro has more than one OS.

Debian users are mostly Linux users.

However, there's also Debian FreeBSD, Debian OpenSolaris, Debian Hurd, and IIRC another one as well.

Post by **grinvader** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 9:09 pm

Fucking debianfags.

OBVIOUS TROLL IS OBVIOUS

ibeleaf · Post by **ibeleaf** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:25 pm

so now i upgraded to "GNU/Linux Ubuntu 8.04LTS Hardy Heron" (happy franky?, there's the whole freakin' name.) and i now have no sound... i will attempt the same fix the other guy did and i'll post back.

ibeleaf · Post by **ibeleaf** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:33 pm

i'm having quite the "fun" time trying to find zsnesl.cfg... anyone wanna point me in the right direction?

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:34 pm

~/.zsnes/zsnesl.cfg

ibeleaf · Post by **ibeleaf** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 5:09 am

still cant find it

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 6:50 am

It's there. It just happens to be hidden by default.

Post by **grinvader** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 8:58 am

Damn ubuntufags not knowing what ~/.*/ is.

ibeleaf · Post by **ibeleaf** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 2:44 pm

or instead of typing that you could've just explained and avoided being an asshole.

i just switched, i assume that tilda is the part of the file path that's specific to my computer but i still don't know where to start from to paste that... like is it in the lib or bin or usr or what?

ibeleaf · Post by **ibeleaf** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 2:54 pm

there we go... didn't know that i actually had to put the tilda in the file name, i thought that was something you just added to shortcut... now i know "~" has a function.

i'm all set now, thanks for the help deathlike

ZH/Franky · Post by **ZH/Franky** » Sun Apr 27, 2008 9:44 am

ibeleaf wrote:so now i upgraded to "GNU/Linux Ubuntu 8.04LTS Hardy Heron" (happy franky?, there's the whole freakin' name.) and i now have no sound... i will attempt the same fix the other guy did and i'll post back.

You still got GNU/Linux and Ubuntu the wrong way round. It goes in this order:
Ubuntu GNU/Linux

The "8.04LTS Hardy Heron" bit is not nessesary.
Ubuntu GNU/Linux will do.

But then the GNU isn't needed in this case either. Saying only Linux as the whole OS is wrong. Saying GNU/Linux is right, since Linux is only 2% of the whole thing.
But that rule is only for the software in general. If it's a specific distro, you can just say "<name of distro> Linux".

so "Ubuntu Linux" is fine.