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GroovyArcade live-CD 2022 (collaborative effort)
hearttinker:
--- Quote from: Substring on November 09, 2021, 10:57:01 am ---Quite much to reply to ... I may miss some questions, just ask again!
GA freezing after some roms: known problem, caused by SDL2 + Xorg. As of today, 2 possible solution : increase th eminimum dotclock (6.0 should be enough), or rollback SDL2 to 2.0.14 (n which case you'll miss next updates, and as I'm starting to patch SDL2 for later purpose, I don't recommend that solution anymore). I can help you on how to set this up.
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I will try to make individual ini setup file of mame with minimun dotclock option.
--- Quote ---Frontends: despite I but all my hopes on PegasusFE, I just hate its roms indexing system, really. So I don't plan yet to make things "easier", even more when the FE is still alpha afte ryears of development. So yes, there are a few lines here and there to be ready for a different FE than AM, but I'm not adding anything more yet to ease life.
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Most of people use default frontend so it is no problem. Someone who wanna use other frontend should try himself or will be better to call to other friend.
--- Quote ---Screen centering: with all respect to VeS work, I just totally disagree with how he did things, even if it means less "flexibility" for the user. In other words: the days where you needed ot edit Xorg config files are way over for ages, and I don't want to add myself anymore burden with maintaining some code to play with X configuration files. No way. So it works as it should work : X gets the modelines from the kernel. And there is no other choice as to write these modelines in the stone, no way to patch them. A possible solutio is to write your own ocrt_range ad then ask switchres to generate the approriate EDID + install it in the initramfs and configure the kernel to use it.
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Last weekend I tried screen centering based on your comment.
I followed arch wiki document of https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/kernel_mode_setting
EDID is much more elegant way than before. Easily done with switchres, intramfs, and kernel command line. Very satisfied because console and gasetup screen are also centered.
--- Quote ---RX460 + amdgpu: no one tried yet, can't tell how it will behave. Most chances that interlaced resolutions will be refused by the driver, not even talking about the fact the video card probably has no analog connector (VGA, DVI-I)
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Interlace resolution... bad new. I already ordered an active adaptor of HDMI to VGA but it seems useless now for GA. Currently I'm finding used R7 260X or 360.
But as time goes by, current HD 7750 seems not bad.
Jimbo:
I've just installed the latest GA 2021.08, and having issues again with video snaps in attractmode.
I'm using the emumovies mame HQ videos, which I've had running on another virtually identical groovyarcade install just fine.
The videosnaps take almost 10 seconds to load before they play, and AM freezes until they're loaded.
Once loaded they play fine until they reach the end where they stop instead of looping.
Each time I change a game to a new one in the list, this happens.
I've got a fast Ryzen 3600 CPU, more than enough RAM, and a Radeon HD6450 card.
It's basically the exact same setup I'm running in my other cab with I believe 2020.06 version of GA. Videos from same source. Same AM theme except I am using the plugin to rotate the screen as this is for a vertically mounted monitor.
I am also getting an issue where I exit a game from mame, and I just get a black screen, it doesn't take me back to AM's gamelist. :(
Any ideas?
Thanks
UPDATE: The video issue seems to be random... some times I boot GA and it's fine, videos loading immediately (still not looping though), and others it takes up to 10 seconds to load each video. Also, in "General" settings of AM, I only have to choose from either blank or "software" as the video decoder. Neither makes a difference. The videos are the 640x480 mp4's from emumovies.
UPDATE 2: After some more testing, I think the randomness of the video issue happening may be something to do with the timing of attractmode loading. On a few occasions I have booted up into attractmode where the issue happens, then I quit attractmode into gasetup, then instantly run the frontend again from gasetup, and the issue is gone, videos load fine (however they still don't loop!).
UPDATE 3: The rotationcontrol plugin has nothing to do with it, it still does this regardless of using this plugin.
Substring:
First of all : update your system (can be done from the text menu). This will fix the freeze on mame exit for certain games.
For AM freezing, read https://gitlab.com/groovyarcade/support/-/wikis/4-Issues-and-Troubleshooting/4.2-Known-Issues#attract-mode-frontend-freezes + the item before the one linked (which requires you to compile on your own)
Jimbo:
Thanks mate, I fixed it in the end by choosing the correct sound card.
For convenience (I thought!) I am using a J-PAC into a supergun to set this up before I put it in my cab. I didn't get time to solder the pc stereo to mono cable for jamma so I was testing without sound. Turns out the GA install defaulted it to HDA-ATI, and this seems to be what was causing all the pausing, non-looping videos, and crashing in AM. After changing it to HD-Audio-Generic, it worked perfectly.
Thanks again.
MK3FANATIC:
I'm trying to use an xbox one control in groovyarcade and I'm not getting it, in retroarch I get the following message: "microsoft xbox one S pad (1118/746) not configured", the control vibrates, but it is not possible to configure the buttons and neither even the directional pad works. Are there any settings or drivers I need to install to make it work?
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