ZSNES in Ubuntu help?

[peanutbutterninja]

So I hear ZSNES is notoriously hard to get running in Ubuntu. I was wondering if anyone who got it to work cold help me. I installed it using sudo apt-get install zsnes and it appeared in my applications list under Games but when I click it nothing happens. When I try to run it from terminal I getthis error message:

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Starting Mouse detection.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event5. 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/event2. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
Unable to poll /dev/input/event0. Make sure you have read permissions to it.
ManyMouse: 0 mice detected.
*** buffer overflow detected ***: zsnes terminated

And trying to run it as root I get this error message:

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Starting Mouse detection.
ManyMouse: 2 mice detected.
Using ManyMouse for:
Mouse 0: Chicony USB Multimedia Wireless Kit
Mouse 1: Macintosh mouse button emulation
*** buffer overflow detected ***: zsnes terminated

[Deathlike2]

Read this: http://board.zsnes.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=12339

In essense, whoever uploaded a broken binary in your distro's repository is doing a disservice.

[peanutbutterninja]

I did that stuff and it still doesn't work, I don't think that's what the problem was though because my processor isn't x86-64 or whatever in the first place. Sorry for being such a Linux noob, I just installed this yesterday.

[adventure_of_link]

if your processor is 64-bits, chances are your processor will handle x86-64.

that being said, you never bothered to post specs other than your OS.. RAM, video card, CPU..?

[peanutbutterninja]

My processor is 32-bit. My OS is Ubuntu 8.10, 3 GB of RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT video card and Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Q6600.

[odditude]

My processor is 32-bit. My OS is Ubuntu 8.10, 3 GB of RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT video card and Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Q6600.

Your processor is 64-bit. Whether or not you're running a 64-bit version of Linux is a different question.

[adventure_of_link]

Funny, I just looked up the processor on Newegg and it has 64-bit support. You're most likely running the 32-bit version of Ubuntu.

isn't there a command where you can lookup the supported technologies (x86-64, SSE, PowerNow, MMX, HT, etc) in Linux?

[dfreer]

You can run the following command to figure out what arch you are on:

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uname -a

My 64-bit machine:

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$ uname -a
Linux rowdy 2.6.26-1-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Oct 9 14:16:53 UTC 2008 [b]x86_64[/b] GNU/Linux

Should look something like this for 32-bit:

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$ uname -a
Linux rowdy 2.6.26-1-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Oct 9 14:16:53 UTC 2008 [b]i686[/b] GNU/Linux

Anyways, I can help you get ZSNES running. There's two problems I know of:
(1). The issue linked to here:
http://board.zsnes.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=12339
Which should only matter if you are running 64-bit.
(2). Broken binaries of ZSNES in Ubuntu 8.10. Try either compiling the binary using an older version of GCC, or you can try downloading one compiled by someone else.

Instead of using the 1.51 source, make sure you download the 1.51b source or download a 1.51b binary.

[adventure_of_link]

You can run the following command to figure out what arch you are on

Thanks, but I thought there was a command to list all the supported instruction sets for your CPU

[adventure_of_link]

found it: cat /proc/cpuinfo

type this into a console. under the flags: section lists all the instruction sets your CPU supports. if you see x86-64 in the flags section your CPU can accept a 64-bit OS.