Hello there wonderful arcade enthusiast folks!
I have been using GroovyArcade pretty much since the beginning, or at least before AM got added as a frontend option.
I'm generally pretty handy with my Linux-fu, especially within the confines of the GroovyArcade release cycle.
I generally don't have troubles upgrading the binaries, or diving into the configs and tweaking.
I even managed to get Daphne working a while back, but I have a hard time playing those games.
I seemed to find the best success with the 2018 iso - and I've been using that for a while, but it runs GM0.195
I decided to get my sets up to date and current and whatnot, and also noticed that there was a newer release from April of this year.
Anyhow, I went through the typical install - Ive been using surplus Dell Optiplex 755s for years without issue.
With this latest release, I have no (perceptible) sound. I am unable to run alsamixer - I get an error "cannot open mixer: Invalid argument"
So i hooked everything up to an LCD screen in an area with a network connection (alas, no cat5 runs to my cabinets in the garage)
and tried reinstalling alsa-utils, alsa-libs, alsa-drivers - to no avail.
I messed with the .asoundrc file and didnt really yield any results.
So i decided i would update the system by running pacman -Syu
Well, it seems that worked and i had sound quite clearly and was able to run games......on LCD
However, when putting the Atom-15 flashed card in there, i get a blank screen (i see the bios,no OS)
So i restarted the entire install (many times at this point) in my cabinet, and ran a CAT5 to it so i run the update on the system as it will be in the cabinet (It's a DigDug, btw)
Same results - after the update and reboot, I see the BIOS screen, then no OS loads - i just get a blank screen.
Could it be that the kernel updated and blew out the 15Khz patches?
Then i stumbled across a few of these threads, regarding issues of no sound after updating to kernel 5.6.2...
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=254408And another this time with 5.6.14 i think
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=256070So i used uname to get the installed kernel version and it is 5.6.2
It seems like this issue has been resolved in a newer kernel, but i am not sure how to make the Groovy-ness persist.
Should i just wait for the next release, or is there something that i may be overlooking(thinking) that i could do?
Any insight would be greatly appreciated. If I can provide any additional info, i can oblige.
Thanks!