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General_Faliure:
I also have the grub problem.
see my reply in the Groovy live cd topic.
Greetz, Ger.
bitbytebit:
--- Quote from: General_Faliure on March 18, 2011, 10:11:09 am ---I also have the grub problem.
I installed Opensuse on the second hard drive and Opensuse added groovymame to the grub menu, so i could give it a test run.
I could startup Wahcade and play a game, so far it works, i didn't have much time to play around with it.
It is a bit slow at starting up tough.
The hardware of the test system: athlon 64 3000, 1 gigabyte ram, ati 9600.
My cab runs on similar hardware, but starts up a lot faster.
I would like to know how to add more games, and maybe some more emulators, (like Daphne).
Is there also a file manager? mc didn't work.
Greetz, Ger.
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If you have network access to it, then it shows up as a windows share with a ROMS folder which has the roms directory in it for mame games. Also if you go to the http://ip.address of it there's a web interface.
I do need a local filemanager and mc might be a good choice, is that easy to use (I always use command lines or X Windows ones, which are heavy). Also one way to admin the box is to change the Window manager to FVWM temporarily and from there do command line stuff. I need to look into a file manager to standardize the rom setup. Also the setup of the roms directory to be more organized.
Thanks for the feedback, I plan on attacking this more here pretty soon to fully become much easier to use and figure out the grub setup/install. Basically the surface polishing and the general ease of use stuff, the internal technical stuff should all mostly be laid out I hope.
I'm not sure why bootup is slower, do you see any specific parts happening compared to ubuntu or possibly places where it pauses for awhile? I could see that possibly since we are basically loading the graphics at boot and that has to access the firmwares for the ati cards, to get 15khz output soon as possible that way, might be one slower thing.
General_Faliure:
On my cab i use a 19" tft monitor, and the test system is connected to a 19" crt monitor, so i don't use the 15 khz output.
The cabinet also has a 250 gig hd, the test system a 80 gig and a 40 gig drive, the bigger one is possibly a bit faster.
I will look into it if i have the time.
Greetz, Ger.
General_Faliure:
Hello.
I managed to connect to groovyarcade from another system using gnome commander, and copy some games.
I am not able to login at the web frontend, i don't know what name and password to use.
Also, the mame games do not work in full screen.
Greetz, Ger.
bitbytebit:
--- Quote from: General_Faliure on March 19, 2011, 10:23:20 am ---Hello.
I managed to connect to groovyarcade from another system using gnome commander, and copy some games.
I am not able to login at the web frontend, i don't know what name and password to use.
Also, the mame games do not work in full screen.
Greetz, Ger.
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The login is admin and default password is arcade, unless you change the password in the menu interface.
If it's not an arcade monitor then you'll need to setup different options in the mame.ini for unevenstretch keepaspect most likely, I've been also wanting to improve the support for normal LCD monitors but right now that's not automated and needs some work setting up mame.ini a bit different. So that's a 'next step', but for now possibly just adding those options or setting them to 1 in mame.ini will work. Also another possible issue is that if your not setting up the video to use 'Multi' or 'VGA' in the setup menu, then it won't setup mame/X/switchres to be able to setup the modelines that will work.
Also what kind of video card are you using, if it's ATI then we've got all modelines covered, but if not then you'll most likely need to use the unevenstretch/keepaspect and possibly always throttle. Unfortunately not all video cards work as well as the ATI ones *yet*, another future plan but also may be limited by if the drivers in the kernel for others can do vsync and complete xrandr modeline setup.
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