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Groovy Arcade Linux Live-CD, based on Arch Linux (official update)
dmarcum99:
Hi all!
I'm using the last GM linux version before Ves took control of the Linux side.
I'm using a WGD9200 and having trouble with vector games...(blank screen)..would upgrading fix the issues?
Will I see any other benefits upgrading to the new iso?
Is there an easy way to upgrade?
It took forever to get advmenu to get my sounds and config all sorted out(gave up on WAHCade). Will the upgrade force me to redo everything (file/directory structure) since it's on ARCH and my version I'm currently using GENTOO?
ves:
Hello dmarcum99, groovyarcade can update without erasing the partition HOME, which normally keeps the settings, and so you can use your old preferences mame.ini advmenu.rc etc..
dmarcum99:
I saved my advmenu files off line in case something wrong turned out...I had issues and decided to start over. :dunno
The new install went OK,but my files I want to move over are on another Windows PC on my network. With earlier version I used, I had an interface and could move files back and forth. On the new setup, I can see my cab from the windows PC on the network, but don't have permission to move/edit files.
How do I get permission so I can move my advmenu settings and 89gigs of roms?
ves:
Hello, can you prove this?
chmod 777 * /home/arcade/
chmod 777 .* /home/arcade/
chmod 777 * /home/roms/
chmod 777 .* /home/roms/
dmarcum99:
I'll have to locate another hard drive to check your request. My whole intent was to update the system as I was getting ready to hand this cabinet over to my friend. Now he has to wait a while until I can get it back to the previous state.
For the time being, I had to ditch the arch-linux version of the live-cd. I believe my hardware is messing with your build and I couldn't figure it out. I have pretty standard equipment, nothing dodgy in the least. I had a long weekend, and after 48 hours of non-stop re-intalls and tweaking, I could not get a reliable setup. This was after replacing the power supply, video card, and RAM. :banghead:
1)The pre-configured modelines for my D9200 would not function correctly. Many of the games that came packed with the distro would display at 36khz horiz freq. Victory was one that stood out right now in particular. I could select the D9800 setting, and the native res's would kick in, but my D9200 only goes to 640X480, so I was leary to leave it that way. I tried using all the setting at the boot-up (DVI1 15khz, VGA1 15KHZ...except the PAL setup....but all the way through the buggy motherboard settings. Only a couple of games played in the native rez. On top of that, they all played too fast. an F11 would report 300-400% game speeds.
2)On a new install, it would reboot into the front-end, but after I rebooted after that, I would get one of three scenarios A)On reboot, my monitor would report a "NO SIGNAL" on it's OSD and hang B)It would come up to the boot animation screen, and a large portion of screen corruption would be in the lower left corner of the screen....I could see what looked to be a progress bar, but would hang at what looked around the 70% area. 3)I would get a "OUT OF RANGE" on it's OSD but suddenly a screen would appear that looked like a dump screen. It would freeze here and do nothing else.
3)When the front-end was up and running, all my fans were running at full blast...it was loud. So I went into LXD, and discovered my CPU was running at 90% at...I had 2 processes, chewing up 80% of the processor.
None of this happened on the Gentoo distro...not that it didn't have quirks as well. I had trouble getting some vector games to work...getting an out of range error on the OSD. I was hoping your distro with the new groovymame builds would help the issues.
This is not an attempt to try to flame your work. I'm sharing my experience so maybe it might lead to a bug discovery or something. I am so thankful you and Calamity are working on the groovymame builds and improving them constantly. If I had different hardware, it might be a different story. On either live-CD, I have tried 4 different ATI 9200-9250's that I cannot get to run on an AMD motherboard. I can use the videocards, if I run an intel processor, but not on my AMD setup.
Wells Gardner D9200 arcade monitor
AMD Phenom II 840
4gb ddr2800
Gigabyte mobo with AMD on-board ATI4200 graphics(disabled and also tried to use without success)
HIS ATI 4670 1GB (fanless)
420watt PSU
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