Re: AdvanceCD alternative?

"John W. Cocula" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.games.mame.advancemame.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Now I have the following follow-up question - once set up this way, how
> does one maintain it? It would appear to go straight into advancemenu
> with no opportunity to ever get a command shell again?

I press Ctrl+Alt+F2 to give me a fresh shell to log into.  Of course, if
you log in with the same user that was autologin'd and starts advmenu in
.bashrc, it will try to launch advmenu again.  So I either login as some
other user, or just press Ctrl+C before advmenu succeeds in starting up. 
Elegent? No.  But workable.  Ideal would be to detect in .bashrc which
console you are logging into, and only start advmenu if it's console #1. 
But I'm too lazy to figure out how to do this.

Also, when I try to switch back to console #1, the resolution often
doesn't correct itself.  I think this is more a problem with rivafb than
what you might find with other setups, but I don't know.

Since my cabinet is on the wifi, I usually ssh into the cabinet from the
office to avoid the awkward wireless keyboard and viewing angle.

All the best,
John





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