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32/64bit Groovy Arcade Linux LiveCD/Install
bitbytebit:
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--- Quote from: bitbytebit on April 16, 2011, 09:03:38 pm ---Ah for one output (what kind of card is it?) you really then would need to pick the SVGA/VGA monitor type on the grub menu to install, and then do the after installation method of switching output to be 15khz. When you change the output to 15khz vga-0, it's only 15khz after a reboot, so you'll want to wait till you change it in the menu and then halt the system then change monitors and reboot. I'd actually leave it connected to the LCD monitor/VGA monitor until full reboot and check the screen and see that it's really 15khz (or doesn't output to the monitor), if you want to be extra careful, then can turn off monitor/connect arcade monitor/turn it on.
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It's an onboard Intel graphics adapter.
Thanks for the info. Whenever I start installing to my PC I'll take notes and make a comprehensive document that can be pasted into the first post (for us noobs). I think you will have lots more people converting to this if it's easy to review before "taking the leap" from an easy setup (XP, Win7) to Linux (easy as well, but the whole hardware aspect can be confusing).
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Cool, definitely check with the liveCD first to see if that adaptor really can handle 15khz. It may be one that needs possibly the dotclock setting to be higher which I do have an option for now in groovymame but it isn't automated in the setup interface yet. Just a mame.ini option to raise it instead. I figure the intel adapters should work, although might need some tweaks here and there through the system, not sure. No one has tested and reported what they do yet, given logs, so I have no clue if they really work or need some special settings. I just know the code in the Linux kernel looks pretty active, they seem to be doing as much work as the ATI ones are, and looks like they are supposed to support all the same features but just not sure about 15khz modelines (the 15khz console I have is global all DRM drivers so it covers all graphics adaptors that are supported by the Linux frame buffer, but each individual adaptor might need PLL tweaks possibly or special dotclock limits in mame.ini).
dmarcum99:
It's me again!
More Wah!cade questions:
What do I need to do to get some of the multimedia features in wah!cade to work? I'm trying to get music to play in the background...and to the best of my knowledge I've pointed the wah!cade setup program to the directory where the .mp3 file is(arcade ambience file) /home/arcade/emulators/mame/music/arcade83.mp3
I'm also trying to get my videos (.avi's) to play as the screensaver and also to play while in the front end. Again, I believe in the setup I pointed the setup program to where my files are. /home/arcade/emulators/mame/videos
Lastly, intro video...I am trying to get the mame lightning video (.avi) to be used as the intro video when wha!cade starts up. I believe I've pointed the setup program to my file, but like the other items, it won't play on startup. /home/arcade/intro/intro.avi
bitbytebit:
Wahcade needs gstreamer to do the music and video functionality. I had this running before, I'm not sure but it might require a rebuild too of wahcade and some python modules too. With emerge you can search for the gstreamer parts, I will look at what is exactly required to get it going too.
--- Quote from: dmarcum99 on April 23, 2011, 01:36:38 pm ---It's me again!
More Wah!cade questions:
What do I need to do to get some of the multimedia features in wah!cade to work? I'm trying to get music to play in the background...and to the best of my knowledge I've pointed the wah!cade setup program to the directory where the .mp3 file is(arcade ambience file) /home/arcade/emulators/mame/music/arcade83.mp3
I'm also trying to get my videos (.avi's) to play as the screensaver and also to play while in the front end. Again, I believe in the setup I pointed the setup program to where my files are. /home/arcade/emulators/mame/videos
Lastly, intro video...I am trying to get the mame lightning video (.avi) to be used as the intro video when wha!cade starts up. I believe I've pointed the setup program to my file, but like the other items, it won't play on startup. /home/arcade/intro/intro.avi
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dmarcum99:
With zero prior knowledge with linux I hope I did the right thing... I typed #sudo emerge gstreamer
It appeared to go to the gstreamer website and downloaded files, but afterward, still no luck. Did I do the emerge thing right? Reboot...???
I also tried the emerge thing for groovymame... #sudo emerge groovymame. It took a long time before I was able to use the cab again, but groovymame appears to work normally. Do I need to go through the setup program again?
bitbytebit:
--- Quote from: dmarcum99 on April 26, 2011, 08:32:56 pm ---With zero prior knowledge with linux I hope I did the right thing... I typed #sudo emerge gstreamer
It appeared to go to the gstreamer website and downloaded files, but afterward, still no luck. Did I do the emerge thing right? Reboot...???
I also tried the emerge thing for groovymame... #sudo emerge groovymame. It took a long time before I was able to use the cab again, but groovymame appears to work normally. Do I need to go through the setup program again?
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Ah cool, the groovymame part should be fine, should be the newest groovymame now, no need to go through the setup part.
Yeah the gstreamer libraries are there I guess now, but there might be other missing parts, and besides that wahcade itself will need to be re-compiled and installed which unfortunately the way I've got it isn't possible on your end. Since I have a customized wahcade config setup so that the config files are modified for paths to groovymame, and a couple bugs fixed they have. I need to do something about that, when I have some time I'll see what it'll take to enable the media functions of wahcade. Also I really need to make it into a ebuild like groovymame to allow an update like you did through emerge. Unfortunately it's probably quite a bit of work to do that since there's no wahcade ebuild in gentoo and it'll be a whole new ebuild, I haven't explored creating them from scratch like that yet. It'll probably be easiest for me to try and get wahcade to be enabled for the gstreamer/media setup already, hopefully it doesn't take up too much space to do that, I'll have to see.