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Groovy Arcade Linux Compatibility

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Calamity:
Hi processor,

The GroovyArcade distro is meant for ATI cards only.

Now, what we know from Windows is that from the X series, only the lower ones work fine (X300, X600,...). The others (X1300, etc.) can't do low dotclocks. HD 2xxx and HD 3xxx have the same problem. This doesn't mean that they don't work: you can just setup GroovyMAME to use higher dotclocks and it will duplicate xres in order to do that, but that's kind of problematic with other emulators.

As this seems to be driver related, and not a hardware issue, in Linux, they might work just fine indeed. The problem is that we don't have information about it. It would be highly appreciated that someone with a bunch of different ATI cards tried the GroovyArcade distro and did the right tests to determine which ones are fully compatible or not. I've tested it myself with R 9250 and HD 4350 and it worked great with those.

Ansa89:

--- Quote from: Calamity on March 26, 2012, 04:57:42 am ---The GroovyArcade distro is meant for ATI cards only.

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Mmmhhh...Are you sure?
For what I saw GroovyArcade try to determine the correct video driver for the X server and force it to 15KHz through kms (aka 15KHz kernel patches).
So since the videocard is supported by the open video drivers and these drivers use kms for image rendering, then the videocard is supported.
Obviously the start point always is having good drivers for that videocard.



--- Quote from: Calamity on March 26, 2012, 04:57:42 am ---I've tested it myself with R 9250 and HD 4350 and it worked great with those.

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I have tested it with a R9200 and a HD5450; both works well.

Calamity:

--- Quote from: Ansa89 on March 26, 2012, 05:09:33 am ---Obviously the start point always is having good drivers for that videocard.

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Yes that's true. And the only drivers that have been tested succesfully are the ATI ones, that's what I meant. Again, if someone had the time and energies to test this with nvidia cards and report back it would be highly appreciated.

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