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I recently installed from scratch GroovyArcade 2022.10 OS (Latest available) using a 15khz CRT monitor.

The installation was completed very fine, no issue.

After the installation I can see BIOS logo with bad H SYNC ( normal)... after the SYSLINUX message (clear image, sync OK) for half second then I see the GroovyArcade booting image with progress bar, finally I get a black screen. I heard sound but no screen.

If i try to switch on TTY2,3,4,5,6 with ALT+F2,3,4,5,6... I see correctly the command console. I come back on TTY1 and the black screen still.

I return on TTY2 and I try to kill startfe.sh process... then sometime this force to reload the MAME and I see properly the MAME on TTY1 with ROTO game now. Everything still working fine until I power off or reboot the computer...

I used another computer with a standard LCD monitor, make a fresh install again... I got exactly the same problem ! This can confirm me it's not a resolution or bad 15khz setting problem.

Does a know problem ? New problem with 2022.10 ? How can I fix it ?

want a latest version of groovyarcade

==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: 'ast'
-> Running build hook: [autodetect]
-> Running build hook: [block]
-> Running build hook: [filesystems]
-> Running build hook: [keyboard]
-> Running build hook: [fsck]
-> Running build hook: [plymouth]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating zstd-compressed initcpio image: '/boot/initramfs-linux-15khz.img'
==> Image generation successful
(14/22) Reloading system bus configuration...
(15/22) Warn about old perl modules
(16/22) Updating fontconfig cache...
(17/22) Probing GDK-Pixbuf loader modules...
(18/22) Compiling GSettings XML schema files...
(19/22) Update groovymame configuration
Welcome to Groovy Arcade Linux Setup
ERROR: If you run this script as root not through sudo, you must specify a user.
error: command failed to execute correctly
(20/22) Probing GTK3 input method modules...
(21/22) Updating icon theme caches...
(22/22) Updating the desktop file MIME type cache...

after upgrade,reboot system,cannot start Front-end ,Enter Desktop is black screen.

I use the controls directly through Lpt using a driver called Lpt-switch, but it only works in Xorg. There is a module called openppjoy (fork 2023 turric4n) that is very complete but does not compile in the current kernel. I believe that with some adjustments to the source code that uses C it would be the best control option for GroovyArcade, without delay and makes the controls standard as it sends keyboard commands, which is the standard for emulators. It's just a tip.

If you change to a new computer hardware, can it run without reinstalling the system?

I have a HP Elitedesk 705 G3
On the first reboot everything works, on the second start the computer no longer boots and always shows me the error "boot device not found, Please install an operating system on you hard drive".
I don't know why the computer no longer wants to boot when I start it for the second time. I've already tried everything.

V-USB twin joystick (based on ATMEGA microchips) doesn't seems to be supported in Arch distro. Ubuntu based SO's works fine following this steps https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/24408/juyao-dual-arcade-2-player-on-ubuntu/15

In GA only the first player works

Link to driver > http://vusb.wikidot.com/project:mamepanel

We are having a lot of occurrences of users here in Brazil who are looking for complex ways to run Retroarch in Groovyarcade build. Would it be possible to also include in the installation packages the option to use this emulator? It would be extremely and gladly. Best regards and good work my friend

hi i can't configure dosbox-pure core,it is present in cores directory but dont shows in ga setup default core options then not appear in actract mode

Anything need to do to protect the CRT?

Hi

I'm trying to use GroovyArcade together with my PC-JAMMA board ( http://www.bartoxsystems.com/?page_id=48 )

The arcade cabinet uses a K7000 monitor, and I have chosen that in the installation..

I have the menu working, but when I startup a game, I get a black screen, and it then exits to the (gasetup) menu.. I think it's because switchres changes to something else that the supported resolutions on the PC-JAMMA board (640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 720x400)..

I get this in the logs:

SwitchRes: [supertnk] (1) vertical ([email protected])->([email protected])
Switchres: xrandr resolution switch error, original mode restored
X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 153 (XFree86-VidModeExtension)
Minor opcode of failed request: 10 (XF86VidModeSwitchToMode)
Value in failed request: 0xc00014
Serial number of failed request: 238
Current serial number in output stream: 250
2021-01-05 22:50:01 - make_action(52): INFO - Starting emulators/groovymame.sh->post_launch
2021-01-05 22:50:01 - post_launch(22): INFO - Postlaunching mame
2021-01-05 22:50:01 - make_action(52): INFO - Starting modules/cpu_governor.sh->post_launch
2021-01-05 22:50:01 - post_launch(22): INFO - Restoring CPU governor to schedutil
2021-01-05 22:50:01 - make_action(52): INFO - Starting modules/ledspicer.sh->post_launch
2021-01-05 22:50:01 - post_launch(19): INFO - Postlaunching ledspicer. Args: arcade supertnk
2021-01-05 22:50:01 - post_launch(26): DBG - Service not running.... exiting
The requested video mode is not available, switching to a valid mode
Failed to get output info for.primary monitor position
Failed to get output info for fullscreen mode, switching to window mode
[ALSOFT] (EE) Failed to set real-time priority for thread: Operation not permitted (1)
The requested video mode is not available, switching to a valid mode
Failed to get output info for.primary monitor position
Failed to get output info for fullscreen mode, switching to window mode

Is there a way to disable switchres or reconfigure it to use the supported resolutions??

I have tried using the LCD configuration, but doesn't really seem to change anything...

I have the amd R7 250 gfx card.through I read the wiki，The card is Southern Islands 。And It can use two kind of drivers radeon and amdgpu。 the （amd gpu）drivers can support vulkan and opengl 4.6。but I install the ga os 。default give me install the radeon，how can I use the amdgpu，thank you！

i can run groovymame in desktop and it is 0.254,but can't enter to am frontend,and i want install pegasus-frontend,bu it is can't install success.

KMS works great (aside from the slow res switching) but using X, retroarch will load a game, go back to attract mode, then when you launch another game, just sits on a black screen.

This is pretty much a fresh install

• Iso released on Easter
• instal type: 'generic-15Khz' instal
• rig: i5 4690k. ATI 5450, ntsc crt tv

syslinux
append root=/dev/disk/by-label/GA rw quiet rd.udev.log-priority=3 splash mitigations=off audit=0 monitor=generic_15 video=VGA-2:320x240S

GA splash, AM, GAsetup, all 240
live CD/USB has GA splash, AM, GAsetup, all 480 as expected

Thanks for all that hard work!

Within setup, the wireless networking SSID scan results page incorrectly processes wireless networks that contain spaces. For instance, if I have a wireless network named "Test Network", the scan results will show two networks, one named "Test" and one named "Network".

I'm struggling with this, is there a hard and fast solution without adding resistors to the RG or B lines?

My monitor already has 75ohm impedance and any more resistance makes it too dark.

Is there not a way to force a monitor to be detected at all times?

I have use the newest ver GA [email protected],It said can use amd diplaycard's vulkan drives in ga.And I install a pcsx2,and use the vulkan mode,it doesn't work.When I use opengl mode,it can work .SO,I think the vulkan drives is not work on my AMD R7 250,but,I can use vulkan in windows10.and I can use vulkan mode at pcsx2 in batocera x86 Ver34.
IF have some way let me know I have install the right vulkan drives?Or what amd displaycard can use vulkan in groovyarcade,Thanks!!

Hi,
I have an old Betson 27inch Arcade Monitor that is able to do tri-sync, and also using an old ArcadeVGA board.

I can run a MAME game just fine, but when exiting MAME, so it tries to switch back to Attract Mode, I am losing video/sync, and it stays lost.
It will just show "No signal detected" on the monitor itself.

Interestingly enough, a ctrl-alt-detect will bring the "Groovy Mame" screen back up, as it shuts the system down.

I am extremely new to GroovyArcade (loaded it literally today), so I am not sure where to begin searching to fix this issue.
Any thoughts?
Thank you!

I want use Pegasus Frontend，
in metadata.pegasus.txt

collection: MAME
extension: zip
launch: myemulator {file.path}

How to write running commands for each Game console
Can you make metadata.pegasus.txt for each console for GroovyArcade
Except for the game list section

Ty sir. I’ve waited for updates for so long. Love your work 👏🏻. Keep it up 💪🏻

It seems that all displays are configured for positive sync only. There should be option if possible to use negative sync signals, as some displays do work better with those as this was pretty much standard for arcade games, and also J-PAC and other jamma converters seem to work bit better with negative sync. Also negative sync can be converted to composite sync more easily with passive circuit.

I do have issue where my machine boots with 15kHz negative sync, and when groovyarcade start it switches to positive, and K7000 monitor I'm using can't switch between these without changing sync lead position in input connector.

I get this message on a clean install after trying to change the frontend or do a system update which pretty much means I can't do a lot. Not much else to say.

I'm running a Gigabyte GA-H61M-S2PV and a Radeon HD 6570

I think this is just a visual issue, but if you select "Install to Hard Drive" and then select "Cancel", the installer appears to continue the installation. In my particular case, I didn't have any storage device connected, other than the bootable USB, so I'm not sure where the installation was trying to write. Fortunately my bootable USB continued to operate, so I don't think the installer tried to overwrite it.

The network setup menu incorrectly spells "dynamic IP" as "dinamic IP". No big deal, but wanted to point it out. I know how sometimes having a TODO list makes it easier to get things accomplished.

After installation to a hard drive, in setup if a WG-D9400 monitor is chosen, the switchres configuration file gets configured for a D9200. I don't know if this is just a visual issue or if it matters. However, what I do know is that X does not get configured to generate a modeline my D9400 can display.

In my particular setup, the D9400 is being driven by an nVidia 7xxx series video card over VGA. Video setup tool discovers this connection as DVI-I-1 (again, not sure if it matters). And the video setup tool otherwise fails to detect the monitor (maybe the monitor doesn't support EDID?).

Hi,
If I chose to install this to my hard drive does it wipe it or does it give the option to dual boot it (I have windows already on it) ?
I don't want to check in case I select the option and then it proceeds to wipe the HD totally...
If there is no dual boot option it would be a nice enhancement to have if possible,
Thanks all !

Will you be able to join hbmame in the future? and besides, Saturn's Emulation yabasanshiro can also be installed, and also has a 240p model operation?it can run saturn's game faster on slower computers

Hello. I recently updated my GA installation, and the next time I boot my PC this message displayed:
setterm: cannot (un)set powersave mode: Inappropriate ioctl for device
Afterwards, the screen doesn't display anything on my CRT, and on an LCD it says "input not supported" (obviously because it doesn't support 15kHz, but it would display the GA menu before iirc).

After updating both OS and Groovy i got the following missing files:

libsfml-graphics.so.2.5
libsfml-window.so.2.5
libsfml-system.so.2.5

This seems to have been caused by fml being updated to 2.6..

I have tried symlinking the files to their 2.6 versions, but then I get this issue:

attract: symbol lookup error: attract: undefined symbol: _ZN2sf6Window19setKeyRepeatEnabledEb

What to do?

Using the 2021.01 release: using gasetup to pick a vertical (or the rotating mode) monitor setting has no effect on attractmode or groovymame. All games will display in horizontal mode, even vertical ones.

mednafen in Xorg mode
video.resolution_switch native
but game run in 480i
video.resolution_switch switchres
game can't run
mednafen in KMS mode
video.resolution_switch native
video.resolution_switch switchres
game run in 240p,But the screen size is too big

x68000 emulation don't find the bios file put in bios/keropi directory as show in retroarch setup guide

I have earlier created issue #4 ...

I seems like there is now a fix available:
libsdl-org/SDL@02a6ff0
libsdl-org/SDL@1c78b08

I need to set the environment variable: SDL_LINUX_JOYSTICK_CLASSIC=1

Where do I set that in GrooveArcade, so that everything will read this variable?

Hi,

If GroovyArcade 2023.11 installed on a USB, GA will boot successfully as long as the USB stick remains plugged.
If the GA installed USB stick is unplugged and replaced by another bootable USB key, then GA won't be able to boot anymore.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Install GA on a USB stick
2. Check that installed GA boots correctly
3. Unplug GA USB stick
4. Swap it by another bootable USB key
5. Power on PC
6. Shutdown
7. Replug the GA USB stick
8. Power on, the key won't boot anymore.

I got the same issue with GroovyArcade 2022.01, GA 2019 works fine.

1. How is the PC2Jamma adapter configured? for an arcade jamma to recognize the commands?

2. I tried using groovyarcade on a PC with pentium 4 2.8ghz and it says that it is not compatible with i686, it only requires 64 bit processor to work?

Thanks!!!

GroovyArcade 2022.01
--> OK to install it on a SSD with a LCD screen or in 15khz mode... but after reboot i'm then unable to boot in 15khz (so black screen on my arcade CRT), and the "change display" setup doesn't work... GroovyArcade 2022.01 works OK on a LCD though...

As a workaround, is it possible to force the ouptut though a script / setup file ?

when i start the lxde desktop a second time the mouse pointer disappears

to return it I have to change to attract mode, then exit and start gasetup and change the frontend to lxde then it appears again

Using Attract Mode with some videos (like this) make it crash.

/home/arcade/shared/logs/attract.log

Attract-Mode Plus v2.6.2 (Build 0) (Linux, SFML 2.6.0 +FontConfig +7z +Curl)
avcodec 60.3.100 / avformat 60.3.100 / swscale 7.1.100 / avutil 58.2.100 / swresample 4.10.100

Config: /home/arcade/shared/frontends/attract/attract.cfg

*** Initializing display: 'MAME'
 - Loaded master romlist 'MAME' in 51 ms (14117 entries kept, 0 discarded)
 - Constructed 2 filters in 1 ms (28234 comparisons)
Failed to get output info for.primary monitor position
 - Loaded layout: /home/arcade/shared/frontends/attract/layouts/Reflect/ (layout.nut)
munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer

Any solutions?

So I've fresh installed GA as I changed hardware and all went well, everything seemed to work just fine. Then I did a system update through the setup menu and updated and downloaded the retroarch cores and performed a reboot, now I get the attached.

It's still booting, I can access the samba share, but I have a feeling it's now got a problem outputting to the correct display.

Is there something I can do to fix this? I check the groovy log file but there's no entry from this boot. Subsiquent reboots don't help.

Attached is my ga.conf, it looks correct to me. I've got VGA out via a dvi to vga adapter on the only output with analog support. I also have 75ohm resistors to gnd on the rgb to force the edid which it seems to require (on this card and the previous hd 5450).

Hardware is:
I5 3550
8gb ddr3
Gtx 650

@substring wassup bro...
In this latest GA version 2021.03, I missed the AdvMenuPLUS

any chance of it coming back?

put other front-ends with option to choose which one to use
e.g:

• EmulationStation
• RetroFE
• AdvanceMENU or AdvMenuPLUS
• Attract-Mode

that would be very nice

is a long time can't update anything

Hi

I have 4 connected joysticks in my arcade cabinet...

These are always detected as /dev/input/js{0,1,2,3} .. but within attract and mame they are often switched around on reboot...

(e.g player 1 becomes player 3 and so on)

This switch doesn't happen on device level, js0 is always player 1 if I use jstest..

How does this mapping work? Do they use some of the event devices?

invalid or corrupted package (pgp signature)

(70/70) checking keys in keyring [######################] 100%
warning: Public keyring not found; have you run 'pacman-key --init'?
downloading required keys...
The upgrade shows like this, what should I do? Is it still a network problem?
/var/cache/pacman/pkg in download 140 files,
sof-firmware-2023.09.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
sof-firmware-2023.09.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst.sig
like this
I tried many times
I hope there is a package that integrates retroarch and fbneo,That would be much more convenient

For some reason, loading any rom suddenly just doesn't work with mame from AM. It just goes to the cli (with that set mode message). If I leave it for 5 minutes the rom eventually loads but mame seems to be running extremely slow, if there's an initial warning message about the game not working properly, it won't take any input. Hitting the power button still shuts down normally.

RA has no problem launching from AM.

If I got to desktop and load mame directly it works fine so I can only assume it's an AM cmd line setting?

Odd thing is, this started happening without any hardware or software changes and at first didn't always happen but after about 10 rom loads, it's now happening every time on all roms.