Tweak geometry not working

[retrorepair]

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I've got an issue where I can't get into the tweak geometry settings to shift the image to the left. Every time I select it, no matter the video backend, I get a black screen and no way to exit so have to reset the machine.

Is this maybe related to the issue from a while ago with exclusive video mode causing a black screen? Although I'm fully up to date and not got this issue with anything else, just the tweak geometry setting.

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Does this blackscreen problem only happen with the grid ?

[retrorepair]

Just as soon as I hit the tweak geometry option in gasetup. It doesn't happen with anything else.

I've set a custom arcade_15 preset and reduced the HBP to 6.000 and HFP to 4.000 and games look good, but menus of course are all way over to the right.

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can you just exit gasetup, go to the terminal and type grid a,d tell me what is the output ? Simply press ESC to exit

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That's all I get, it just hangs

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You can see there I tried to hit escape lol

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Have you fully updated ? If yes, please make a support archive and send me the link, thanks

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It was up to date a couple of months ago, I'll try to update now though.

I did also notice MAME does the same thing if I have KMS enabled. Works fine using Xorg (even if it's a little epilepsy enducing).

Grid does the same thing with xorg or kms though

[substring]

You should restore your initial crt_range

[retrorepair]

Ok, did a full OS update and now nothing runs under KMS. Grid, mame or RA.

Trouble is, after updating I now only get MAME working under xorg, everything else crashes on boot so looks like the update has borked something :(

It's weird because on the first reboot after the update, geometry tweak worked, having rebooted now, i can load attractplus, run MAME roms and anything else just crashes returns me to attractplus (usually without changing resolution back).

Here's the log EDIT, LINK FIXED:

Https://file.io/DQmkOW2VrEkq

Wish I didn't mess with anything now :(

[retrorepair]

You should restore your initial crt_range

I tried :(

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generic_15 preset ?

[retrorepair]

Yep

[substring]

Could also try to rollback SDL2 to see if it's that one messing

[retrorepair]

I'm sure you've told me before how to do that but I don't use linux much, how would I do that?

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Ok, downgraded sdl2 using pacman -U and still the same.

It did ask when updating if I wanted to replace python something with a python like extras/python something, I said yes, maybe I shouldn't have

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does the grid binary work with SDL2 rolled back ?

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I've not tried it feom the shell yet, it didn't work within GA setup though. Will try in a bit.

I feel like after the update all was fine until I changed to KMS. Changing back to Xorg didn't help though

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Tried the grid executable, still hangs

[substring]

ok go sudo pacman -S strace then strace grid and give me the output

[retrorepair]

log.txt

Ok, this is the output

[substring]

Please try rm -rf /home/arcade/.cache/mesa_shader_cache then grid again

[retrorepair]

Just tried that, no change :(

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Just wondered if you've tried a full os update lately @substring? If it's just me I can possibly work out what's broken

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of course I did and tried the geometry tool, and I had no problem.

But I don't see the SDL2 package installed on your system, how come ?

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No idea, it definitely is. I even made sure to downgrade as suggested and there were no errors

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Does GM work ? Retroarch ?

[retrorepair]

GM works under Xorg, not KMS. RA doesn't work at all

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Before the update, GM worked under Xorg not KMS and RA worked under either

[substring]

Try rolling back mesa and eventually llvm-libs

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I'll give those a go, I think I need to take a look at what else is installed though as if you don't have issues then I don't know why I am. I've got Wine installed but not much else