Retropie PC + arcade monitor problem

marcoabm

Hi everyone, I'm having a problem when running the retropie on my pc with arcade monitor 15khz, the operating system open, displays the image normally but when opening the retropie it displays a terminal screen with white background and nothing happens ... Has anyone ever experienced this?

marcoabm

Some information to help you to help me ;-)

I'm not using Raspberry Pi, but a computer, with Xubuntu 64bit installed and a Radeon HD 4350 graphics card.
My arcade monitor is an Eago for 29 "screen and the resolution is 640x480 15Khz.
I am using the graphics card with a vga cable with the modified pinout connected to the arcade monitor, it is working fine, the system opens, it displays the desktop normally, but when opening the retropie does not display the emulation station, only a terminal screen with white background and no error message.

This is how my modified vga/rgb cable is mounted:

1 - red
2 - green
3 - blue4 - N/C
5 - ground
6 - ground
7 - ground
8 - ground
9 - N/C
10 - ground
11 - N/C
12 - N/C
13 - csync
14 - cync
15 - N/C

marcoabm

I tried to open the back end of the terminal instead of using the shortcut created by the installation, and something different happened: At the terminal I typed the emulationstation command, it showed the "ES logo" but then left, leaving a window next to the terminal.
When clicking on the window, the game menu appears, but frozen!

youxia

So you're using CRT Emudriver? Did you try standalone Retroarch?
This forum is mostly Raspberry Pi users, also CRTs are a niche thing so don't be surprised if nobody helps (but, you never know)

marcoabm

@youxia Not in this case, CRT Emudriver is a modified driver for windows that allows the video card to send non-standard resolutions and frequencies to the crt tv/monitor, linux does not need this, just a few commands with xrandr ;-)
I think it's a detail, because the desktop image is being displayed normally, I open firefox, file manager etc, except the retropie.
It would be a shame to have to stop using linux and go for a Windows + Retroarch + EmulationStation solution, since in linux, everything had worked very well so far and with even better performance, but if there is no alternative I will have to migrate : - /

youxia

Right, I've heard that Linux people can bypass the Emudriver.

But still - did you try Retroarch standalone? The latest one supports 15khz natively on Linux as well.
On RaspberryPi you need to change hdmi_timings in boot/config.txt to output to a CRT - not sure, perhaps directly from Linux on a PC it's different.