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GroovyArcade live-CD 2022 (collaborative effort)
Cucurbitacée:
Hi everybody,
It's a pleasure to see that GroovyArcade is still going forward. So, I decided to give it a try and replaced my old 2017 install with the 2021.08. And as I expected, so many things don't work. Before I start to explain more, is this the right thread? If not, could a good soul point me towards the right one?
Thanks. :)
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Here or on discord, as you wish
Cucurbitacée:
Thanks. I've only used discord once so far. So I'll try my luck here. :)
My hardware is quite antique by now, the graphic card is an ATI Radeon X300. According to hwinfo, the driver is "radeon".
The card has 3 output (DVI, S-Video and VGA), it is connected to a Sony 55cm TV with a homemade VGA - SCART cable. This setup was working really well with older versions of GroovyArcade.
I used Generic15 in GASetup.
* First problem: Attract Mode freezes quite often. I had the problem in the past, and if remember correctly, I got rid of it by compiling Attract Mode myself. This is a minor problem for now. But if anyone knows why, I'd gladly take the explanation.
* Second problem: it seems only 640x480i is working. If I launch a game from Attract Mode (I tried a dozen of them), the TV goes out of sync. If I launch a game directly from the command line, the screen flip back to 640x480i with a more lot stretched image, depending on the game.
Other than that. Congrats on the work so far, I found the idea of the voice to guide the user while the screen got no signal very clever!
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--- Quote from: Cucurbitacée on August 22, 2021, 04:29:19 pm ---Thanks. I've only used discord once so far. So I'll try my luck here. :)
My hardware is quite antique by now, the graphic card is an ATI Radeon X300. According to hwinfo, the driver is "radeon".
The card has 3 output (DVI, S-Video and VGA), it is connected to a Sony 55cm TV with a homemade VGA - SCART cable. This setup was working really well with older versions of GroovyArcade.
I used Generic15 in GASetup.
* First problem: Attract Mode freezes quite often. I had the problem in the past, and if remember correctly, I got rid of it by compiling Attract Mode myself. This is a minor problem for now. But if anyone knows why, I'd gladly take the explanation.
* Second problem: it seems only 640x480i is working. If I launch a game from Attract Mode (I tried a dozen of them), the TV goes out of sync. If I launch a game directly from the command line, the screen flip back to 640x480i with a more lot stretched image, depending on the game.
Other than that. Congrats on the work so far, I found the idea of the voice to guide the user while the screen got no signal very clever!
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1/ Do you use video snaps ? Depending on the hardware, they tend to make AM freeze on interlaced resolutions (which is the default). Bug in the AMD Xorg drivers ... So your solutions : check in AM options that power saving is disabled, set a progressive resolution in gasetup > setup > video > video resolution, or get rid of the video snaps ...
2/ are you sur ethe generic_15 is a good profile for your TV ? GroovyMame does modeswitch. Needs more logs, you can find them in shared/logs (the mame.log is helpful here)
Cucurbitacée:
* I indeed use video snap. Thanks for the tip. As I said, I fixed it in the past, possibly by using a different resolution.
* I used Generic_15 because that's what I used before and it was working, I have no certitude beyond this. I'll pick the logs when I'll be back home tonight. Thanks!
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