ePSXe or pSX do not work

Question

ePSXe is my favor emulator. It does not work in Ubuntu 11.10. It ask me for libgtk1.2 and I cant find it within 11.10? pSX told me that:

(pSX:6367): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_handler_disconnect: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
[src/linux/sound.cpp, line 215]: 'snd_pcm_hw_params_set_access(pcm_handle,hwparams,SND_PCM_ACCESS_MMAP_INTERLEAVED)' returned 'Invalid argument'
pad=0

I have no idea about that. It there anyone can help? Why removing libgtk1.2 ???

Answer 1

pSX seems to be broken; I've asked about it before and haven't been able to get an answer. As for ePSXe, my guess is that libgtk has been upgraded a couple of times and v1.2 is now deprecated. In any case, you may want to try PCSX-Reloaded, it's in the Ubuntu Software Center. It works for me.

Answer 2

pSX isn't broken for me. If you already installed libgtkglext1 from package manager... The problem that shows you have around pulseaudio was included. The easier solution is runing pSX like root (sudo ./pSX), the emulator shows and run; then you should change the audio conf at file/configuration and sound tab. The device is setting like "Default" and need to be your device name (change this option with your dev). Now you can close the emulator. Look for the psx.ini file in the root folder (/root/.pSX/psx.ini) and copy the sound device code, this would look like this:

[Sound] Frequency=-1 Sync=1 Reverb=1 Interpolate=1 Latency=32 XALatency=20 Device=b7d317a4 (this is my dev, your could be different)

Now open the ini file, but the one of your user (for example: /home/yourusername/.pSX/psx.ini) and paste the device code that you copy before.

Your emulator should run fine now.

Don't know if the epsxe problem share the same solution.