[bobt]

this will only work on the advmame.

[bobt]

Mouse0 is correct otherwise you would not have seen any characters.

I updated the existing lines within the .RC file. I’m attaching my .RC for your review. the file was showing up as invalid so I renamed the file.

[bobt]

did you verify that your trackball/spinner are on mouse0?

If not you need to verify by

ls /dev/input to see the inputs

cat /dev/input/mouse0 move the trackball/spinner. If you don’t see text then try mouse1.

cat /dev/input/mouse1

The input map would have to be updated to point to the correct mouse input

[bobt]

yes. I did the clean install then updated the settings as listed above.

[bobt]

I think the key was changing the mousetype to ps2. Originally when I had the issue my trackball/spinner were assigned to mouse1. I started over with a clean install. My trackball was then assigned to mouse0. After the new install, the trackball and Spinner were also recognized in mame4all.

[bobt]

I finally got the trackball and spinner to work.

I finally got the trackball and spinner to work with advmame

the first thing you need to do is figure out which mouse is providing the inputs
type ls /dev/input – I had mouse0 and mouse1

determine which mouse is providing input for the trackball and spinner – it will be the same.
type cat /dev/input/mouse0
move the trackball or spinner. If text is showing on the screen then you will use mouse0 in your configuration. If no text then substitute mouse0 with mouse1.

The roms that I had loaded were for advmame-0.94.0. edit the advmame-0.94.0.rc configuration file
cd .advance

I used the advmame-0.94.0 roms
edit advmam-0.94.0.rc in the retropie/.advance folder

edit the following lines
device_keyboard raw
device_mouse raw

device_raw_mousedev[0] /dev/input/mouse0
device_raw_mousetype[0] ps2

input_map[p1_dialx] mouse[0,x]
input_map[p1_dialy] mouse[0,y]

input_map[p1_trackballx] mouse[0,x]
input_map[p1_trackbally] mouse[0,y]

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