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32/64bit Groovy Arcade Linux LiveCD/Install
Calamity:
--- Quote from: bitbytebit on March 23, 2011, 10:07:53 pm ---Are the problems when using a TV or NTSC output, or is he just using NTSC? The TV output hasn't been well tested, I suspect that NTSC might not work right now if it really is on a TV. That sort of makes sense, that we are getting interlaced working on that but not progressive. I'm not sure though, the settings I used for NTSC were not verified fully and they could be wrong in the monitor settings.
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He is booting with [VGA-1 NTSC] and the selecting NTSC in GroovyArcade menu, I'm asking him just to make sure but I think he's tested other options in GroovyArcade menu and it's the same, and also other guy tested with CGA/NTSC/H9110 and still the same. I'm sure it's something that can be fixed, if only I can reproduce it here.
dmarcum99, thanks a lot for your comments, let's thank bitbytebit who is making a huge work supporting all this.
bitbytebit:
Version 1.525 has some major reworking of the directory layout and menu system, autopartitioning, way install works. Basically if you had problems with grub not booting, or menu system was a bit confusing, hopefully this makes things somewhat more linear and logical. Hopefully that's the case, also updated the kernel to the newest stable Linux one now that it's out scsi support on bootup may help some systems.
Importantly the roms directory is now /home/roms/ instead of /data/, also the mame ones are in /home/roms/roms/ and other systems are /home/roms/SYSTEM_roms and SYSTEM_snaps/ format, the directory layout when autopartitioning is basically /boot gets 100 meg for kernel, / gets 4-16 gig depending on your drive size, /home gets all the rest of the space. So that way /home/ can contain the roms and /home/arcade user directory, and you can mount (hopefully works with NTFS now) another roms partition to that /home/roms/ if you want a separate drive for that.
The main menu now is basically System Setup, LiveCD Setup, Installation, File Manager, Partition Manager, Reboot. So you go through the setup menu first, then choose either the LiveCD menu or go through the Install. In fact you really don't even have to use Setup because the Install now asks you about each Setup menu, more like a normal guided installation in some ways. The LiveCD menu separates all the LiveCD things so it's not confusing as to what is an Installation thing and what is a LiveCD thing.
24032011 - 1.525 Release
- Kernel 2.6.38.1 update, new ATI Radeon microcode updated for newer cards
- Include scsi support in grub bootup and genkernel build
- Static IP option in network setup
- Many more checks in setup system for drive configuration
- Changed /data to /home/roms, quite a big change
- Changed autopartitioning to use / /boot /home and swap, more complex layout
dmarcum99:
Since I did a HD install and it appears to be working great with an ATI 4350 is there a reason for me to go from 1.515 to 1.525?
Also, how is the updating handled from a HD install? I don't want to screw anything up if I do decide to upgrade later on...
awesome work guy! just freakin` awesome!!
bitbytebit:
--- Quote from: dmarcum99 on March 24, 2011, 01:32:29 pm ---Since I did a HD install and it appears to be working great with an ATI 4350 is there a reason for me to go from 1.515 to 1.525?
Also, how is the updating handled from a HD install? I don't want to screw anything up if I do decide to upgrade later on...
awesome work guy! just freakin` awesome!!
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Nope, probably no need right now since mostly the changes are aimed at making the installation easier, clearer and less likely to fail at grub MBR installs.
Right now updating mostly is seen as you would want to backup your /home/arcade directory, possibly /data if you haven't already got backups of the roms (or now in 1.525 it's /home/roms, so basically /home all together now), and pretty much copy them onto a fresh install. I can see how there's probably an option to upgrade I need to make on the menu and it would just not touch the /home directory and instead just re-install to the existing partitions from the old install.
Another option that I do for systems I use for other purposes like servers/desktops, if one knows or reads up on Gentoo, is you can always treat it like a mostly normal Gentoo system and use the emerge/portage/ebuild system, but of course it might drift away from Arcade Monitor safety since there are quite a few modifications and following the ISO images and updating through them in the future when needed is safest on an arcade cabinet.
So probably look forward to a general update option in the next version, although mostly any big important changes would be in the future if you wanted a newer version of Mame as they come out. Really once it's setup it's fine, but I do see how with the new partition setup I can probably in the future make it easy if one wanted to upgrade for any particular reason. The only other issue there is if any specific files changed in the /home/arcade/ user directory like .config type files as advancemenu or odd's and ends, but that really isn't happening lately at all so I don't expect much to change there in the future.
One thing I do need to fix, is going through the different emulators and tuning them for matching mame button input, resolution setup, some work already but 2 or 3 have a few issues and just need to be configured. Actually if anyone out there does go through and configure the different emulators, gens/snes especially, would be great to pass the changes back and I could incorporate them.
Thanks, it's good to see people starting to be able to use it and enjoy it, definitely knew I had originally gotten something nice setup here on my cab and fortunately have finally been able to make it into a portable distributable form (and from the help of Calamity, Ves and others it's been able to be much better than I had originally thought possible). The other use of this for me has been the ability to setup my own workstation/server systems quickly which I used to dread going through the whole Gentoo setup from scratch, or using Ubuntu and fighting customizing it over and over, but now I'm able to quickly install a Linux system and know it is ready to go.
dmarcum99:
When I select a game from advmenu, right before the game starts, I see an enlarged pic of the game I selected (cool)...but right before the game starts, I see a mouse pointer. Did I do something wrong in my setup? Is there anything I can do to keep from seeing the pointer before the game starts?
I also went through another 150 or so roms last night. A couple of games run too fast. It might be mame, but I'd thought I'd bring it up. The games I found were Mace & Wayne Gretzky's 3d hockey.