GroovyArcade live-CD 2020

[tombo]

Hi intealls and Calamity

Many thanks for this:

When building and testing 0.156 with NO_USE_XINPUT = 1, the slowdowns do NOT occur in GA Dec 14 with VMware. Also, when building and testing 0.158 in Ubuntu 14.04 with NO_USE_XINPUT = 1, no slowdowns either (also in VMware)!

You're the man!

I am running Groovy Arcade Linux from the Live-CD 2013-02-24 installed to disk on my arcade cab. Is there a config file or Linux command I can use to patch my existing setup, in order to make the slowdown problem disappear? I definitely want to avoid having to go through auto-setup/partitioning/tweaking with a new build.

[Doozer]

When building and testing 0.156 with NO_USE_XINPUT = 1, the slowdowns do NOT occur in GA Dec 14 with VMware. Also, when building and testing 0.158 in Ubuntu 14.04 with NO_USE_XINPUT = 1, no slowdowns either (also in VMware)!

You're the man!

I am running Groovy Arcade Linux from the Live-CD 2013-02-24 installed to disk on my arcade cab. Is there a config file or Linux command I can use to patch my existing setup, in order to make the slowdown problem disappear? I definitely want to avoid having to go through auto-setup/partitioning/tweaking with a new build.

Hi Tombo,

This is quite interesting. Could you kindly make a test with 0.164 versions available from (https://googledrive.com/host/0B5iMjDor3P__aEFpcVNkVW5jbEE/)? You just need to replace the existing groovymame binary.

Could you confirm that you experience the slowdown effect with groovymame64_0164.015h_linux.tar.bz2?

[Doozer]

I have played a bit with the 15Khz patch on Linux and latest kernels. There is no issue so far up to 4.1.6, which is a good news.

The patch modifies the first PLL (head1) limit to accept lower dot clocks. Extending it to the second PLL allows dual 15Khz outputs.

Which game would be a good choice to test dual screen output from groovymame? A game with different syncs would be perfect.

[philenotfound]

Yeah, I'm using them too with 4.1.6. My setup is a Debian Jessie installation, slimmed down with a custom kernel and rebuilt radeon drivers..

[cools]

Ves asked me if I still had the PKGBUILD files I made for AUR, I've dug out what I can find - note they are extremely out of date and probably won't compile without reworking.

I'm half curious to restart building them (put together an old laptop with Arch the other day specifically to carry on), but systemd is as bad as all the negative press it's been getting so I'm not sure I really want to continue with a distro supporting it...

[ves]

Thank you very much Cools, I want to keep aur pkg updated for use in GA.

Doozer, can you post the patch for dual monitor?

[Doozer]

Thank you very much Cools, I want to keep aur pkg updated for use in GA.

Doozer, can you post the patch for dual monitor?

The patch is based on the patch-3.19.zip file adapted to 4.1.6 kernel, the main addition is the low dot clock for p2pll. Full patch is available in attachment.

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diff -Naur linux-4.1.6/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_clocks.c linux-4.1.6_dualhead/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_clocks.c
--- linux-4.1.6/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_clocks.c  2015-08-17 05:52:51.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-4.1.6_dualhead/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_clocks.c 2015-09-09 09:10:12.723534658 +0200
@@ -242,20 +242,24 @@
                        if (rdev->family >= CHIP_R420) {
                                p1pll->pll_in_min = 100;
                                p1pll->pll_in_max = 1350;
-                               p1pll->pll_out_min = 20000;
+                               //p1pll->pll_out_min = 20000;
+                               p1pll->pll_out_min = 4308;
                                p1pll->pll_out_max = 50000;
                                p2pll->pll_in_min = 100;
                                p2pll->pll_in_max = 1350;
-                               p2pll->pll_out_min = 20000;
+                               //p2pll->pll_out_min = 20000;
+                               p2pll->pll_out_min = 4308;
                                p2pll->pll_out_max = 50000;
                        } else {
                                p1pll->pll_in_min = 40;
                                p1pll->pll_in_max = 500;
-                               p1pll->pll_out_min = 12500;
+                               //p1pll->pll_out_min = 12500;
+                               p1pll->pll_out_min = 4308;
                                p1pll->pll_out_max = 35000;
                                p2pll->pll_in_min = 40;
                                p2pll->pll_in_max = 500;
-                               p2pll->pll_out_min = 12500;
+                               //p2pll->pll_out_min = 12500;
+                               p2pll->pll_out_min = 4308;
                                p2pll->pll_out_max = 35000;
                        }
diff -Naur linux-4.1.6/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_atombios.c linux-4.1.6_dualhead/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_atombios.c
--- linux-4.1.6/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_atombios.c        2015-08-17 05:52:51.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-4.1.6_dualhead/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_atombios.c       2015-09-09 09:10:11.929546470 +0200
@@ -1145,6 +1156,14 @@
                p1pll->pll_out_max =
                    le32_to_cpu(firmware_info->info.ulMaxPixelClockPLL_Output);

+               /* Arcade VGA 3000 card settings */
+               if ((dev->pdev->device == 0x958f) &&
+                       (dev->pdev->subsystem_vendor == 0x1002) &&
+                       (dev->pdev->subsystem_device == 0x0502)) {
+                               p1pll->pll_out_min = 50000;
+                               p2pll->pll_out_min = 50000;
+               }
+
                if (crev >= 4) {
                        p1pll->lcd_pll_out_min =
                                le16_to_cpu(firmware_info->info_14.usLcdMinPixelClockPLL_Output) * 100;


[cools]

Found Manjaro Linux which seems to fit my ideals nicely (Arch based, systemd optional, pre-configured desktop environments). Goodbye forever Microsoft.

[NightSprinter]

Doozer, dumb question, but can this patch be applied to that kernel for any distro?

[Doozer]

Doozer, dumb question, but can this patch be applied to that kernel for any distro?

Hi NightSprinter,

Yes, you can apply it to any Linux kernel indifferently from the distribution :-) (with some offsets on non 4.1.6 version)

[lacanian]

Found Manjaro Linux which seems to fit my ideals nicely (Arch based, systemd optional, pre-configured desktop environments). Goodbye forever Microsoft.

Hi Cools,
 Do you think this will be a good distro to use for GroovyArcade?

I just contacted Ves to see what his plans are as well. I finally have time again to help out with GA.

[jtslade]

Found Manjaro Linux which seems to fit my ideals nicely (Arch based, systemd optional, pre-configured desktop environments). Goodbye forever Microsoft.

Microsoft is gonna call you up and ask how it's doing and it's gonna be totally awkward on the phone and you're going to say you know yeah it's not them it's you you're looking for something different and this distro you know makes you feel like you've never felt before and then Microsoft call in the gonna keep emailing you gonna feel worse and then you get mad and then it's going to get really weird and I just hope you're ready for that because you know myself for a long time so I just want to think about it but I understand you got to do we got to do

J/k


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[cools]

Found Manjaro Linux which seems to fit my ideals nicely (Arch based, systemd optional, pre-configured desktop environments). Goodbye forever Microsoft.

Hi Cools,
 Do you think this will be a good distro to use for GroovyArcade?

I just contacted Ves to see what his plans are as well. I finally have time again to help out with GA.

Manjaro is a pre-configured version of Arch, there's little point choosing it over Arch for GA as a Live CD environment. But it means you can use bits of both quite happily, and develop packages for Arch in Manjaro without any trouble.

[philenotfound]

Ever thought about building a custom distro using buildroot?

[jtslade]

Bump to GA to the max


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[niall]

Ves asked me if I still had the PKGBUILD files I made for AUR, I've dug out what I can find - note they are extremely out of date and probably won't compile without reworking.

I'm half curious to restart building them (put together an old laptop with Arch the other day specifically to carry on), but systemd is as bad as all the negative press it's been getting so I'm not sure I really want to continue with a distro supporting it...

If you get anywhere in documenting a basic build environment / list of dependencies to start tinkering I'd love to help out.  I've done similar work before with LiveCDs and read-only filesystems, so I'm still really interested in building and testing GroovyArcade images, help script it all up so it's easy for anyone to contribute.  Until this week I haven't had access to any PCs to play around with, but now I have 3 to so I can finally try Win7x64 and Linux builds in addition to old faithful: XP32 

[ves]

Hi,
New version soon.
I want to ask, How many people use 32-bit, I'm thinking only publish versions 64bit.
What do you think?

[Doozer]

New version soon.
I want to ask, How many people use 32-bit, I'm thinking only publish versions 64bit.
What do you think?

Hi Ves, I am happy to hear that ;-) I have an up to date groovyarcade (properly made with pacman, no extra anymore). Do you see any benefit moving to the next release and do a full reinstall?

I still have some 32bit only processors and I am using groovyarcade64 converted to 32bit on them. Which is almost a straightforward process.

I am maintaining the 32bit groovy builds but I will also stop building it with 0.172. Let's see how many request we will get... EDIT: I was wrong, we have 32bit users

[elvis]

Hi,
New version soon.
I want to ask, How many people use 32-bit, I'm thinking only publish versions 64bit.
What do you think?

All my GroovyArcade/GroovyMAME cabinets are 32bit, mostly because they were built back in that era and never upgraded (never needed them to be).

I can understand why you'd want to drop 32bit support though, as it's a pain to maintain two builds.  Still, I'd say a lot of MAME cabinets are built from older hardware people have lying around (even if 32bit x86 chips are bordering on ancient history these days - or at least that's what my juniors at work tell me).

[jtslade]

Great news.. GA is da best


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[pakoman]

Hi,
New version soon.
I want to ask, How many people use 32-bit, I'm thinking only publish versions 64bit.
What do you think?

32bit would also be great for sure. I still use 32bit in several arcade cabinets and many people still use old computers for Mame projects, but AdvanceMame + MsDOS is now quite limited.

[fcobenitez]

GroovyWiki: Installing Groovy Arcade Arch Linux to a USB Flash Drive

The link is down And if I manually click on Wikis on the Groovy Arcade project site, it says that "groovyarcade has no wikis."

[Calamity]

GroovyWiki: Installing Groovy Arcade Arch Linux to a USB Flash Drive

The link is down And if I manually click on Wikis on the Groovy Arcade project site, it says that "groovyarcade has no wikis."

Yeah, thank Google for destroying our hard work.

[fcobenitez]

Well, that sucks. I guess it's not as easy as downloading the ISO, using some of those software that make booteable USB sticks and restarting the PC with USB boot as first priority?

[pelanas]

Using 64 bit here (P4@3GHz). New versión soon?

[Calamity]

Using 64 bit here (P4@3GHz). New versión soon?

You'll probably have more luck asking Ves directly.

[blontic]

Hi,
New version soon.I want to ask, How many people use 32-bit, I'm thinking only publish versions 64bit.
What do you think?

64bit here. Would love a new version. Thanks again

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[mattr69]

64

[eewoke]

Both!! Older games just run fine on 32 bit. Please make also a 32 bit version.

[ves]

Hello!!!

I'm uploading a new version, if this version has no major faults, will be final version.
Updated system, driver, kernel, scripts, fix bugs,  etc ...
You will see some new options in Gasetup, not active yet.

GroovyArcade live-CD Release 2016

[DeQMaster]

Thank you sir!

[mattr69]

Awesome work Ves!  I'm installing it on my cab 15khz/AVGA cab now.

[fcobenitez]

OMG yes!!  thanks!

Edit: So, can anybody post a mini guide about what needs to be done to install GroovyArcade with an USB stick? As the wiki is long gone

[mattr69]

Hi ves,

I'm using the latest build now. So far so good! This is a new cabinet (vertical, ATI, 15hz) and I need to troubleshoot some resolution issues. I enabled logging switchres.conf but that only works if I run switchres on the console. When launching from advmenu it's not generating the logfile. Any ideas?

/home/arcade/switchres.conf
threads=1
ff=1
monitor=generic_15
mo=1
verbose=1
logfile=switchres.log

Cheers,
Matt

[ves]

Toy can try so
logfile=/home/arcade/switchres.log

[mattr69]

Thanks! Sadly that didn't work either. :-( I've tried placing it in /var/tmp as well. I'll keep plugging away at it.

[ves]

It works for me, delete all spaces

[DeQMaster]

I get some funky colour on the frontend after i press ESC to get out of the first rom i load.

Btw, which version of mame did you include on the beta?

Regards

[strontium]

Hey Ves,

First thing is I want to say thanks for updating this amazing distro. Unfortunately I have a problem that I hope you can help with or at least point me in the direction of where to see logs etc..

The way I normally set up my HDD for my cabinets is to attach the raw disk as a device to a VM and run through the installation. On the old 2015 version this would partiition the physical HDD I would then see a message saying copying Groovymame and then finally I would see it creating the linux and initramfs-linux.img using mkinitcpio.

The issue is the copy completes very quick and then I don't see the kernel and initramfs boot images being created. When I restart and boot from the physical HDD on the VM it says not boot device. Could you please explain where I am going wrong as this method used to work like I said.

The nice thing for me doing it this way was I could configure everything move the HDD to my Cabinet, change the monitor settings and everything would just run. It's almost like it's not copying and running mkinitcpio.

I look forward to hearing your thoughts.

Thanks again,

Strontium

[ves]

Hi.

when installation is complete, Do you have installed all system,and only need initram?

If only need initram, when finished installing, restarts or poweroff  VM from gasetup, no close VM.

You can try to format the disk and restart VM several times before installing.

I use VirtualBox and everything works fine.