Daphne & Singe on RetropieX86

snam11

@dirtbagxon said in Daphne & Singe on RetropieX86:

it was a fresh 18.c xfce install, no custom nvidia drivers, but since i'm getting this weird graphical glitches i thought i could give nvidia a try.
es is not usable at this moment, as you can see in the pics:
emulationstation glitches
i thought increasing vram could fix the issue, but i can't find any option to play with

mitu

@snam11 said in Daphne & Singe on RetropieX86:

i thought increasing vram could fix the issue, but i can't find any option to play with

Open the EmulationStation menu (Start) and under the Other Settings menu you can increase the video ram.
Any reason you're not using a more recent distro, with a more up-to-date nouveau driver ?

DirtBagXon

@snam11 said in Daphne & Singe on RetropieX86:

@dirtbagxon said in Daphne & Singe on RetropieX86:

it was a fresh 18.c xfce install, no custom nvidia drivers, but since i'm getting this weird graphical glitches i thought i could give nvidia a try.
es is not usable at this moment, as you can see in the pics:

i thought increasing vram could fix the issue, but i can't find any option to play with

Sorry, I am no expert on ES and its requirements.

I would suggest searching the forum for some keywords, or open up a thread in 'Help and Support' on this?

Or follow @mitu instructions, he's the RetroPie guy :)

snam11

@dirtbagxon yea sure, i'm gonna do it as soon i'm gonna be out of options/ideas.
thanx again for daphne help

@MITU in es menu (2.0.1a) i don't have that option. just scraper/sound/ui settings/configure input and quit.
i'm on 18.x because the notebook i'm using now is quite old (intel p4, 500gb ram, nvdia fx go5600), and i was planning to disassebly it and put in on a custom cab. i can have a try with latest mint x32 xfce. but i can't use 20.x for sure (is x64 only), i could try 19.x but you think it would be enough?

mitu

@snam11 said in Daphne & Singe on RetropieX86:

@MITU in es menu (2.0.1a) i don't have that option. just scraper/sound/ui settings/configure input and quit.

OK, so you're not using RetroPie, but the original EmulationStation version which doesn't have this option (and probably doesn't need it since it was added mainly for low memory devices).

i'm on 18.x because the notebook i'm using now is quite old (intel p4, 500gb ram, nvdia fx go5600), and i was planning to disassebly it and put in on a custom cab. i can have a try with latest mint x32 xfce. you think it would work better?

It certainly would get your a more recent nouveau driver version and more up-to-date packages. Or maybe use a system that is more recent than 15 years ?
BTW, Debian should offer still a 32bit version, you could try that.

DirtBagXon

@mitu said in Daphne & Singe on RetropieX86:

BTW, Debian should offer still a 32bit version, you could try that.

I'll second the 32bit Debian route, I use it on an old MSI Cubi running RetroPie. I used Debian 10, there is now a 32bit Debian 11 distro release.

I have had no issues, and this was used to develop Hypseus somewhat.

This unit has an intel chipset/driver, which still required some tweaking to stop tearing etc.

I cannot comment if the latest nouveau driver will sort your issues though.... but at least on-line documentation will be relevant.

snam11

@dirtbagxon well, i'm installing right now debian 11 32bit, so wish me luck, also because i'm not such a linux expert...

snam11

@dirtbagxon @mitu no dice even on latest debian 11 xfce, i get white windows instead of graphics/background...
increasing vram (and also lowering es res to 640x400) to max values doesn't help.
i'm gonna post a new topic about it, but i guess this old vga can only work fine only with proprietary nvidia-173 drivers on ububtu 14, or mint 17.
i know for few bucks a rasp. pi can do the job, but in the spirit of reduce/reuse/recycle i want to give to this nb a new life in a fresh diy all mounted cab.

thanx for your help though