vash265 Wrote:I'm using advanced launcher to launch a couple of emulators. Because of some sound issues, I'm actually launching scripts that killall -stop xbmc, launch the emulator, and killall -cont xbmc when the emulator is quit.

This works fantastically, except whenever XBMC returns from the application, the resolution is down to 1280x800 (I have it set to default to 1920x1080). I'm not sure if this is a problem with the launcher, XBMC, or my setup, but I was hoping you could help.

I'm running xbmc on a 2008 macbook (max native resolution of 1280x800, probably not coincidentally), hooked up to an external display via DVI. My OS is Ubuntu 10.04 (so no Xorg files). XBMC launches into 1080p on startup, and I can always go to settings and change it back, but it's becoming a bit of a nuisance.

Any ideas? Thanks.

Angelscry Wrote:There is 2 causes that could explain why you are not recovering the 1920x1080 resolution after closing the emulator :
- When you start an emulator it force to use its proper screen resolution. In this case try to configure the emulator to use the same resolution as XBMC.
- When you start/close the emulator, for a few second your are forced to use the windows manager/OS resolution. Here again, in this case try to configure the Ubuntu to use the same resolution as XBMC.

If it is not working, you can also modify you bash script (used to close/pause XBMC) to change the resolution of your screen (just before resume/restart XBMC) using the xrandr command line : http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-change-display-resolution-settings-using-xrandr.html

vash265 Wrote:I wanted to keep my emulator resolution as it was so it didn't distort the game screen. However, your other two suggestions set me off on the right path.

All I had to do was disable my laptop monitor:

xrandr --output LVDS1 --off

This fixed the problem. To ensure it's off when I launch one of the emulators, I just added it to the top line of my script (before I even killed XBMC). That way XBMC didn't default back to the laptop's resolution when it resumed.

Note that the name of the monitor (LVDS1) may differ if you're looking at this at some point in the future. To find out what your monitor is called, type

xrandr -q

That will show a list of all the available monitors with their respective resolutions. LVDS1 is the default name for laptop monitors with intel drivers.

BrooksyX Wrote:Sorry if this has been asked but I searched with no answers to be found. Is there any plans for support for multi disc games. Like making them show up once and when clicking on the game you can pick which disc to launch? If not thats fine as I just name them disc 1, disc 2.. etc.

• First, most of the game ask you the first disk to start a game even if you actual evolution into the game is on other disk.
  
• Second, it is the role of the emulator to manage multi-CD, not the launcher. Some emulators like WinUAE does it perfectly since many years.
  
• Finally, you always have the opportunity to write/use scripts that will automatically mount all the disks and automatically switch between them using a key press action.
  

Angelscry Wrote:I have removed this option from Advanced launcher several version ago to only display the first CD, for 3 reasons :

• First, most of the game ask you the first disk to start a game even if you actual evolution into the game is on other disk.
  
• Second, it is the role of the emulator to manage multi-CD, not the launcher. Some emulators like WinUAE does it perfectly since many years.
  
• Finally, you always have the opportunity to write/use scripts that will automatically mount all the disks and automatically switch between them using a key press action.
  

Also, as I always said a lot of time, Advanced Launcher is an application launcher, not a roms or disks manager.

igotdvds Wrote:Support in Simplicity: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=103215

tscustoms Wrote:ive searched and really couldnt find a clear answer for this, but i got my snes emu running good and all my roms, but everytime it goes to download the fanart, thumbs, and info it always says no data. what do i need to do? thanks

loktar Wrote:first of all i want to thanks malte for the black screen solution, works like a charm. my new problem is with the streets of rage remake game, it uses bgdi to run but any script i have made the dont starts on xbmc-live but if i run by putty the game works. the game is on ubuntugames repo.