MiSTer FPGA Forum

Sure, it depends on how you installed it. pacman is fine too. pikaur is an AUR wrapper I have muscle memory for, it's also included in the full sd card image i provided.

certificates package was old

If you update regularly you would avoid such issues.

All it takes is `pikaur -Syu` from time to time.

keilmillerjr wrote: ↑Wed Jun 15, 2022 6:35 pm I'm pro supporter of mister switching to a Linux distro with a repo. I use arch on my personal PC.

Hey, welcome!

Let me know how it goes. Feel free to join us on IRC or Matrix:

Matrix: #MiSTerArch:hypertriangle.com
IRC: irc://irc.libera.chat/MiSTerArch

jca wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 12:50 pm

keilmillerjr wrote: ↑Wed Apr 14, 2021 11:39 am Why not ext4?

Case sensitive, like NTFS.

That's not really a problem anymore.

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog ... e-in-ext4/

If you guys are into modeling synths, especially sound creation. You might want to look at faust. It's a DSP language specifically designed for audio synthesis. It can compile to a bunch of targets, one of them verilog. Here's a nice demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQMCDbAZJKs

Quick question: Why do you use both tar and gz? I don't see a reason to use tar when it's only one file. Also, using zstd is a lot quicker, and still compress quite good. For both of those I was thinking about ease of use. What if the user is on an ancient ubuntu machine and needs to google how to unpack things. Honestly I have no idea how to unpa...

I've gotten far too many requests for a prebuilt SD card, despite my insistance that this is something that's personal. So here we are, MiSTerArch.img , dd/installation instructions . This has been implemented using my ansible scripts. I guess I'll regenerate this image from time to time, but it doesn't have to be too frequent. After it's installed...

Some news: Packages have been freshened up (the goal here is to stay on top of this): mister-bin-20220413-1 mister-menu-20220413-1 The kernel has also been updated to mister's new changes (linux-mister-5.15-6). Xone driver has been enabled. Stuff like xow can be found on the AUR . I've also been experimenting with fresher kernels: https://github.co...

Hi! Has someone tried downclocking the ARM core? The best part of this is, for me, being able to keep my MiSTer cooler without a fan (I don't use any computers with fans, and my MiSTer is cooled with a good copper heatsink). Would downclocking affect CHD decompression on cores that use it like PSX, PC-Engine CD, etc? No, the clock for the ARM core...

I saw this and sort of laughed.. I mean it would have to be a reimplementation. Not like anyone expects to take the existing C code and just "recompile". MUNT_OPTIONS = -l # controls the quality of low-pass filters. I wonder about a hybrid implementation, maybe it doesn't have to all fit in the fpga, but if there's only something like a ...

GPIO extensions didn't work out, the MT32pi failed to respond after flashing the MT32pi logo Definitely the extension's problems, as removing it and connecting the MT32pi back to the Raspberry Pi solved the problem Realized I didn't need all the standoffs from the DE10 Nano either, so I have a better fit now... Darn, I have that same case (no cape...

This is cool! What's your heatsink situation like? It would be nice to use it as inspiration for improving my cooling setup too. *Currently, this will rarely keep the CPU below the max clock speed you set because the MiSTer process keeps one core at 100% load, so I haven't included scripts to configure this. This worries me a little bit. In past ma...

That's quite a mouthful post, but congrats.

georgemog wrote: ↑Fri Mar 04, 2022 3:41 pm [root@alarm alarm]# pacman -Sy xorg-server xf86-video-fbdev lxqt sddm xorg-xinit lxde-common lxsession pcmanfm lxpanel openbox gpicview --overwrite "*"

Why are you using overwrite? That's quite a big hammer and could lead you breaking your install.

I updated my kernel to include wireguard if anyone wants to use it.

Space savings are a noble goal. Aside from that, the other reason why I didn't want to get an IO board is the Saturn/PS1 cores: if they'll end up needing the extra RAM won't I have to remove the IO board anyways? In this case I'll be back to square one. Wouldn't those same pins be not be available because they go to the ram now? I don't think you c...

Based on your hesitance to look at the schematic (or parse what the RN does) I'd say you probably want to use a normal IO board instead. Those 100ohm series resistors are probably for signal integrity in order to minimize reflections (or perhaps to lower potential current leaks?). You're also missing the last pin, it's probably just GND, but in the...

https://github.com/coolbho3k/socfpga_oc Just set CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y , so the module in question should be compatible with my -4 kernel update. I tried git cloning and compiling his module it directly on my MiSTer, but it seems my -headers package is a little messed up as a result of cross compiling. This flow is supposed to "just work" th...

This is a long shot and you might not want to go all in on this, but if VPN is a must for you it might be doable with MisterArch . I see lots of possible vpn modules in a variety of network managers. I've never used any one of them so i can't exactly confirm. In terms of wireguard you would definitelly need an extra kernel module, but i can arrange...

full xorg gui Cool! Can you share the minimum list of packages you're using here? So far I have xorg-server xf86-video-fbdev lxqt sddm , but i'm clearly and embarassingly missing something dumb. sddm doesn't want to start (the systemctl service) for me. @bbond007 was interested in this yesterday and in my rush I did not succeed in demonstrating. A...

If I were you and wanted to keep this spartan, I would buy a USB3.0 breakout board with some header wires . what if I connect the 4 pins from the GPIO In case someone knowledgeable on this topic will read this: what if I connect the 4 pins from the GPIO to a USB 3.0 port as shown in the picture? I'm not sure about that lone trace with the question ...

This is actually interesting, although my interest in it is probably completely different from what the authors' original intentions were. No, I share such ambitions here! A few months ago I was debating on getting this de10 board anyway, and I didn't even know about MiSTer. See the references to litex and https://github.com/zangman/de10-nano/wiki...

Amstan, Do you know how one could launch a core+game from a command? I know Mister now supports MGL files, and I was hoping to leverage your OS to install Emulationstation Frontend, not to call retroarch like other SBCs do, but to use the native cores Mister uses. Never tried emulationstation. If it's just a program to manage things around it migh...

MiSTerArch does kinda look like a solution looking for a problem. Maybe. It's generally just a lot of tiny problems that I personally have and the solution wasn't too bad to implement. Boot times are significantly longer I don't consider +8 seconds long boot time to be a problem for me. I'm quite happy to sacrifice this in order to have the flexib...

btrfs is still evolving a lot so maybe in some years it will be largely used and compete with ext4 or fat32 .... since one months a lot of things happen on core AO486 to support Linux + WindowsNT 4.0 New commits also will come for better support on IDE, etc... maybe it will worth to test it again your issue on Windows 95. Yeah, I'm optimistic. But...

Alright, let's calm down. Seems like we all agree a little bit on some things (that we could experiment all we want). I'm mainly interested in the technical aspects in this thread. For example why windows 95 images do not play well with btrfs (did not think i would use those terms in the same sentence, that's hilarious), or how to make dosbox go mo...

OMG I had no idea, that is rough :lol: Luckily not my only reason for using DOSBox. Did you by any chance compile it with /heavydebug and did you try the debugger? I did not compile it myself. All I did was type `sudo pacman -S dosbox`. Anything more is an exercise for the reader. If you can figure out some ways to improve performance I'd be happy...

Ok, I've now tried MiSTerArch with both btrfs and ext4 to check out how they compare performance wise. ext4 is the clear winner. Both performance wise and utility. Sparse files does not crash on ext4, That's cool! I like where such tests are going. Maybe include exfat as well (you can just add it to /etc/fstab) and provide numbers, I would be inte...

I prefer DOSBox over the AO486 any day. Hopefully that will change in the future. But if someone gets DOSBox working on the DE-10 along side MiSTer. I will be using it :D So the question is, how useless is it? Eh..... like 3fps in warcraft 2? Go try it, maybe I'm doing something wrong. I wouldn't jump the gun and say dosbox on the ARM core should ...

At first I thought you would mean that you use NFS instead, but why do you need/prefer sshfs? SCP and SFTP already works and sshfs is essentially just SFTP at the end of the day, isn't it? I'm a little ignorant about the advantages of sshfs over just using scp/sftp instead, admittedly, so I'm interested. sshfs uses the same protocol tools like sft...

This is a neat idea, but I assume it's a little bit clunky if you have to inject virtual keyboard input commands. Unfortunatelly without Sorgelig's support I don't see a better way.

Honestly even some command line arguments to Main_MiSTer (to choose the core and rom) would go far here.