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32/64bit Groovy Arcade Linux LiveCD/Install
bitbytebit:
--- Quote from: ufoufo512 on April 03, 2011, 02:39:46 pm ---Thanks again for updating this project. Currently I am still stuck with no correct game graphics on my AGP Radeon X800Pro. I had gotten the WLAN to work and using ssh and Webmin makes the configuration much easier than using 15KHz arcade monitor which at the moment is rotated to vertical orientation. I had a spare PCI-e motherboard I thought I was able to use for the project, but unfortunately it doesn't work. So I am back to square one hunting AGP Radeon 92xx. It shouldn't be much of a problem, I should be able to get one cheap from the local auction easily.
Meanwhile, I thought giving a shot on making Groovy Arcade Linux from the Git sources. The instructions given in the README seem a bit outdated, but is there something that can't be figured out easily? My goal is to have a 32bit version. If I have understood correctly looking at the source patches is that only combios-Radeons get the hardcoded low pixelclock values, Atom-bios ones (which the X800Pro is) read the value from the BIOS, I guess. I could try to hack hardcoded minumum pixel clock for all Radeons regardless of the bios version. If it doesn't work, no harm done, I will got a Radeon 92xx anyway and maybe I learn something. I got this idea looking at the video posted in that Spanish forum with Radeon 92xx not working with older release of the Groovy Arcade Linux CD. The problems with my setup seem very similar, so maybe it is worth of try.
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I actually made the change for the x800 or ones with the AtomBios too, so if it isn't working then those have some more issues. I have one and have never been able to get it to work right.
Let me know how it goes building from source, not sure how much of that completely works because of course I've been moving forward with the same build and so might have left out a thing here and there. It's definitely a large amount of downloading and compiling to setup the build system for the ISO's, which is why I haven't went through and tested it over and over from scratch. Plus there's definitely little odd configurations here and there I've done to the source directories for each system, and I try to figure out ways to have the build system account for those but can't always get that done or sometimes forget when doing too much at once.
bitbytebit:
--- Quote from: emphatic on April 04, 2011, 12:04:59 pm ---Will this work on an onboard Intel GPU?
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I think it should, I haven't tested it but I think they somewhat actually can do 15khz modes in Linux. Testing the LiveCD and seeing how it goes, and reporting back the results, definitely will get me a good idea of what the status is and if I need to do anything to fix it. Logs from xorg and mame also would be interesting and help make this work if it doesn't already. I am pretty sure the intel GPU's can do vsync, I have a laptop with one in it I have tested things on before but I never attached it to an arcade monitor or tried the 15khz setup on it. Partly from being a laptop and the main output being the LCD, would probably require a somewhat custom config for me to test it forcing the VGA to work as the primary output.
dmarcum99:
This may be off topic discussion, but I thought I should ask anyway...maybe someone has an answer or some help.
I used romlister to create a specific .xml file for the controls my cab has and I went through and hand-picked the roms I wanted to be displayed in advmenu. It took me two days to create this list, but when I delete the mame.xml file in the folder ".advance" and I restart advmenu, I get a blank screen and mame selection is no longer available in the frontend. As soon as I delete my .xml file (named mame.xml) and restart advmanu, it goes through the xml regeneration and displays all the roms again(I have a full .143u3 set).
Is there something I'm doing wrong? When I used romlister I selected the xml creation option and thought I had everything covered...??
ufoufo512:
--- Quote from: bitbytebit on April 04, 2011, 12:12:25 pm ---I actually made the change for the x800 or ones with the AtomBios too, so if it isn't working then those have some more issues. I have one and have never been able to get it to work right.
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Yeah. I was a bit tired when I was looking at the patches code, you are right. I still might try to making the iso from sources. Gentoo is required, I have to install it to Virtual Box.
dmarcum99:
--- Quote from: dmarcum99 on April 04, 2011, 12:29:43 pm ---This may be off topic discussion, but I thought I should ask anyway...maybe someone has an answer or some help.
I used romlister to create a specific .xml file for the controls my cab has and I went through and hand-picked the roms I wanted to be displayed in advmenu. It took me two days to create this list, but when I delete the mame.xml file in the folder ".advance" and I restart advmenu, I get a blank screen and mame selection is no longer available in the frontend. As soon as I delete my .xml file (named mame.xml) and restart advmanu, it goes through the xml regeneration and displays all the roms again(I have a full .143u3 set).
Is there something I'm doing wrong? When I used romlister I selected the xml creation option and thought I had everything covered...??
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perhaps I was thinking it wrong...I was thinking that if I gave advmenu my .xml file it would read it and list only my games.
So...I took another approach. I made a .bat file and copied only the games (roms and chd's)that I had listed in the new.xml file. I deleted the modified xml file and I let advmenu create the xml file again. Now...some of the games are not listed in advmenu....how do I make sure advmenu shows everything in my roms folder?