Monday, July 20, 2009

Working on ArcadeVGA2 support.

Hello dudes!

Today I tested the ArcadeVGA2 again to find why this card don't work with 32 bit color mode.

Well, I found a patch for the radeonfb kernel driver at Directfb CVS, but the patch is a little old for the current PIAPARA LiveCD kernel.

I also sent an e-mail to Andy @ Ultimarc to see if he have interest on it.

Anybody interested too?

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6 comentários:

Chris said...

I have an arcadevga2 If you need any help testing.

Gore Daimon said...

Hello Chris!

I have an ArcadeVGA2 too, but it's PCI-Express. Are you using the latest piapara livecd with a real cga arcade monitor? I'm getting some strange things.

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Chris said...

I have the agp version.
Using the latest version with a cga monitor.
Some games seem to look ok - Some games don't fit correctly on the screen. Half of the screen is cut off.

Gore Daimon said...

Hello Chris.

So, it's working fine. For me the PCI-Express is not working fine...

For the resolution, one solution is the use of the yuyv or yuyv2x2 and disabling the resolution changing. So, every game will be stretched to the same 640x480x60hz resolution. It's an option! Remember to edit the mame.ini file to set this.

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Chris said...

Are you using the analog or DVI port on the ArcadeVGA?

Gore Daimon said...

Great question, Chris.

With the analog RGB, I got normal boot, but when SDLMAME set a resolution, all of them goes to EGA mode!!! With DVI output, I'm getting some 8-bit depths!!!

I think it's a driver problem, but I'm investigating.