Wallyweek:
Since you're the maintainer of the official Ubuntu repository version of MAME, I'll bitchwhinecomplain here...
Once again I'm back on Ubuntu (I've been distro-hopping as of late) and tried SDLMAME from the Canonical repositories. Everything works 100%, except for sound which resembles whale fart noises. (I don't experience this audio issue with any other software.)
I'm running 32-bit Ubuntu with nVidia closed-source drivers, and plenty of power to run the few 8-bit games I've tried. It's a relatively new install.
The only thing I've fiddled with is downloading libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio. The story behind this is I tried Sauerbraten at someone else's suggestion. Worked fine, played it once, forgot about the game.
Last week a friend wanted to see if Linux could do games, so I fired it up again, but lo-and-behold audio failed to start. It gave an error message stating it could not initialize sdl audio or something. The fix on Ubuntu forums suggested downloading the aforementioned libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio. This got Sauerbraten sound working again. But did it break MAME sound...?
I attempted uninstalling this file to see if it was affecting MAME, but both synaptic and apt-get told me removing this file would also result in multitudes of other programs being removed... Huh? (I didn't bother removing it as the other files had important-sounding names.)
Well, whatever. Any hints or tips or wildly amusing sarcastic remarks?
