On 01/09 04:37, Bryan Linton wrote:
> On 2016-01-08 18:16:52, Jeremy Evans <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I just had a report from a user that trying to use emulators/pcsxr
> > raises a "GPUinit: File not found" error dialog box, then segfaults.
> > I'm seeing identical behavior.  I'm not going to have the time to debug
> > this before release, so unless someone else wants to have a look, I'm
> > going to mark it BROKEN.
> > 
> > Alternatively, we could just remove it. I'm actually in favor of that.
> > The reason pcsxr was imported was it was the only PSX emulator that
> > would run on OpenBSD.  Since pcsxr was imported, emulators/mednafen
> > gained PSX emulation ability, so we already have another emulator in
> > ports that can emulate PSX.  Any OKs for removal?  If not, I'll just
> > mark it BROKEN.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Jeremy
> > 
> 
> It works perfectly fine for me on the latest snapshot (dmesg attached).

Great, thanks for replying.  That definitely changes things.

> Could this be a radeon vs. intel difference?  (My system has only
> a radeon card in it).

That makes sense.  The last time I ran it where it worked (a year
or two ago), it was with a radeon , but the system I tested it on
now uses an intel.

> Also, while mednafen can emulate a large number of systems, many
> in the emulation community find that "kitchen-sink" emulators
> tend to lack the accuracy and/or quality of dedicated emulators.
> 
> I can't say with any definiteness that the PSX emulation quality
> is better or worse with mednafen, but I *can* say that many
> system specific features are easier to use in dedicated emulators
> as opposed to mednafen, so I would strongly advise against removing
> other emulators just because there's a "kitchen-sink" emulator that
> already does it, though in this case I understand that you were
> approaching it from the viewpoint that pcsxr was broken, which
> obviously tends to change things.

I agree with you, I'm not in favor of removing it just because mednafen
also emulates PSX, I just don't want to keep broken software in the
tree unless someone will be working on fixing it.

Maybe we should add a MESSAGE saying that pcsxr is known not to work on
intel graphic cards, until such time as it can be fixed?

Thanks,
Jeremy

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