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GroovyArcade live-CD 2022 (collaborative effort)
Substring:
So, a short doc on how ot use the autoconfigure. A few disclaimers or things to do first:
- it's still beta, don't try it on your main rig
- backup mame.ini, switchres.conf, ga.conf as the script will probably set the monitor
- also backup your xorg.conf for the same reason
- during my tests, I faced a weird issue : forcing HDMI-A-1 to on just turned off VGA-1 on one of my PCs. Why, no idea.
- the script may report KO if it detects it can use EDID but can't find the .bin files in the required places (i.e. /usr/lib/firmware/edid and inside initramfs). If, at least, it turned on your screen and you could confirm seeing the dialog, most of the process is done. I'm still interested in the output
- the script only cares about the best possible monitor for MAME. If you run this on a dual monitor, it will try to guess the setup for the arcade monitor. In other words : LCD panels are the last thing the script cares about, and having 2 arcade monitors plugged is not yet recommended, the script will care only about one of them.
Pre-requisites:
- you need espeak-ng sudo pacman -Sy espeak-ng
- you need easybashgui (which is included in my fork of GA). You may download it with wget https://github.com/substring/packages/releases/download/stable/easybashgui-11.0.1-1-any.pkg.tar.xz and then sudo pacman -U easybashgui-11.0.1-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
- not sure, but could be useful to download and install my patched switchres wget https://github.com/substring/packages/releases/download/stable/switchres-1.53.1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz and then sudo pacman -U switchres-1.53.1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
* Download the scripts: curl https://gitlab.com/groovyarcade/tools/gatools/-/archive/master/gatools-master.tar | tar xvf -
* go to the right folder: cd gatools-master/video/
* run the test script: sudo bash video_test.sh (must be run as root)
The script is very talkative with some 90s quality text-to-speech (despite a tts program in just a few MB is pretty awesome and it's quite audible), this makes the process look even more retro :lol
I'd be pretty intereted in the final output. It should look like (depending on your rig and your answers, of course) :
--- Code: ---DP-1: x
DVI-I-1: x
HDMI-A-1: l
drm.edid_firmware=edid/generic_15.bin video=VGA-1:e
--- End code ---
Short explanation of the final output :
- connectors are listed with the results of diagnostics. Explanation is available here. A s may precede x e r o or l if you made a switchres EDID dongle with my version of switchres (witch sets the monitor name instead of the Serial number). Quite useful hehehe
- the script makes a proposition of what you should append to your kernel command line. In the example above (which is a copy/pase of 2 different cases, so the kernel recommandation doesn't correspond to the connectors tests), the script detected a LCD panel on HDMI-A-1. The last line is the result of detecting an arcade monitor which output must be forced at boot, and applying EDID of the generic_15 monitor preset.
Feedback greatly appreciated. There is a groovy.log that should contain much info on what happened, and the result of decisions taken. I'm also interested in that file.
Substring:
So, 2019.12 is out, nothing special about the release. Got mame 0.216, linux 5.3.13 (I wanted to wait for the 5.4.1 release but no ETA, and I've got some plans ...).
Now will start the big work to integrate screen auto detection (with the help of user). Luckily, I'll be able to provide beta isos that anyone can burn on a pendrive.
Substring:
Guyz, I'm glad to announce the beta for screen autoconfiguration is open ! Grab your iso at https://github.com/substring/os/releases/tag/16-integrate-gatools-screen-detection-at-boot ! Burn it to a USK key start as BIOS mode, not UEFI
Things to know :
- the boot menu is now quite shortened. Fo those of you who have no 31kHz boot, here is what you miss and need to chooe the right option
- I'm mostly interested in the confirmation sc---reen + your setup, I've attached an example. There is a misleading text that would happen if you have no AMD GPU + LCD screen : it will report EDID emulation is not supported and resolution must be forced. This text is misleading, but technically no resolution will be forced
- If you accept, a few options will be set, including mame and switchres, but part of the magic is done when loading the kernel. So settings will be applied if you install GroovyArcade (which you can do of course, should work, but this is not the object of this beta). Still, you should be able to test the frontend and launch a ROM shipped with the iso.
- If you are on a full 15kHz only rig, fear not! The script will talk to you and will turn on your screen, so you'll have to confirm you do see something. That way, the script knows how to setup the OS.
Finally, here is a little video of the ISO booting in Virtual Box. Well, nothing magic, but that's a good example.
Edit : well sound is totally out of sync of the video, it was supposed to speak after informing about screens turning on and off :lol Virtual Box did bad recording the video, bummer
Banane:
I´ve been off for two months because unfortunately I had other stuff do ... whoa , A LOT happened.
Thank you so much Substring for pushing this forward ;D :notworthy:.
Damn, today is new year, hopefully tomorrow I'll download your latest ISO and test the script :cheers:
Substring:
Glad to see you back :)
The script is still a little buggy but should work overall.
Got some other great news coming soon (I hope) :D
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