Hi,
I've been playing with the Groovy Arcade Linux for a few days now and think it's exactly what I'm after for my current project. Thanks for the effort putting this distro together!
I can however confirm the problems with the kernel's disk detection on some chipsets that has already been noted previously.
When it dumps out to the BusyBox shell there are no /dev/sd? or /dev/sr? devices present, certainly looks like the kernel is missing drivers/modules for these particular disk controllers.
Using SATA or IDE drives does not make a difference, but I *think* I remember getting it to work with a USB DVD drive.
I have had success with ATI/AMD Radeon graphics and Intel onboard graphics (but haven't tried 15 KHz modes on Intel), but no success with any nVidia graphics card.
With nVidia, groovymame runs, switches display mode, but then crashes out with a segmentation fault.
Here is my results for a few machines I've tried:
Groovy Arcade Linux 1.536 (32 or 64bit):
AMD785G chipset (onboard Radeon HD3200): Disks NOT detected.
nVidia 630a chipset (onboard Geforce 7025): Disks NOT detected.
Intel 915GM chipset (discrete Geforce Go 7300): Disks detected. Mame segfaults.
Intel NM10 chipset (onboard Intel GMA3150): Disks detected. Mare runs fine.
Groovy Arcade Linux 1.530 (64bit):
AMD785G chipset (onboard Radeon HD3200): Disks detected. Mame runs fine.
nVidia 630a chipset (onboard Geforce 7025): Disks detected. Mame segfaults.
nVidia 630a chipset (discrete Geforce 7900GT): Disks detected. Mame segfaults.
nVidia 630a chipset (discrete Radeon HD5450): Disks detected. Mame runs fine.
If there's any other info I can provide you to help solving this issue, let me know. I look forward to trying the new version when it's ready, but in the meantime v1.530 will keep me busy for a while.
Thanks again for your hard work, I'll find something to donate .