Groovyarcade fails to load AM after update
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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
somehow managed to make the picture the link to the conf file so if you click that you'll see it!
I can't test nor recommend Nvidia hardware, you should just run away from it. Intel iGPUs would probably be better, but again, can't test.
The only suggestion I can make at that point is to make sure you boot a progressive 25MHz EDID
Not sure what you mean by boot a progressive 25mhz edid? Like I say, it worked absolutely fine before the update.
I was under the impression nvidia worked well with super resolutions under linux.
I was hoping to use it to help with 3d based games in retro arch as it's much faster than my 5450. Maybe I'll just have to revert back.
There us quite a leap between the iso and today between kernel and switchres updates. So it's hard to tell which one is at fault here.
Try connecting with SSH, run sudo gasetup znd run the troubleshoot option and send the final link please
Ok, here's the link:
Logs lok weird. There is no trace of the installation itself, so I don't know what settings were applied. I can see you're using 1280x480i as a resolution, which is 25MHz interlaced, not progressive. So it could be that interlaced was removed with Kernel upgrade, I can't tell.
All in all, no resolution is reported to be ctive on an GFX card connector
So what we may try is :
- use a progressive resolution -> ass root, edit /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg and replace 1280x480 by 1280x240 (keep everything that is around), but I'm afraid it won't work
- use an EDID instead of the in-built kernel resolution -> a little trickier, we'll see after the 1st test
I'll try that shortly. FYI though, all I've done is install GA, add mame roms via samba, update and thats it
This is how I edited it, hopefully I didn't mess it up. I hate using Vim type editors, makes no sense to me :)
It's still the same though :(
Ok, so edit (with nano, it's easier) and replace video=DVI-I-1:1280x240S with video=DVI-I-1:e drm.edid_firmware=edid/eneric_15_super_resp.bin
Ok, well that's worked.. kinda. It does now boot on the right output and loads attract mode, but hsync is way out of spec for both load screen and frontend (see pics). Vsync seems fine.
I managed to load world rally though and it looks fine so I think it's just a case of getting the modeline for the UI correct :)
It seems c-sync being enabled in Atom15 doesn't play well with the GA environment. I made the change in the Atom15 patcher, rewrote thr gfx cards firmware and all is well.
Csync is not supported