ASUS Tinkerboard: unable to install retroarch and emulationstation.
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dont know if you tried this but there is a guy who is working on a build of retropie for the tinker board.
he does not have anything do to with the work that is done here but its worth a look.
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@mitu sorry for my lack of Linux knowledge but how would I get and install said packages?
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@ExarKunIv I’ve actually looked at it but for some reason when I write the image the sad card won’t boot... actually for that matter the only thing I’ve been able to get boot in tinker OS...
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@E3L1 Just like on any Debian distro, using
apt
apt -y install libgl1-mesa-dev libxcursor-dev libxi-dev libxinerama-dev libxrandr-dev libxss-dev
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@E3L1 ok , just a thought.
i have not got the board yet, so i cant help.
been meaning to but have not had the chance -
@mitu OK so now there installed but now I have a new problem.... when I try to start EmulationStation all I get back is;
“Error creating SDL window!
Could not initialize OpenGL / GLES library
Renderer failed to initialize!
Window failed to initialize!”So am I missing open GL? Or is some other thing preventing it from starting?
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I've not tested this for some time on the tinker board. It's possible something has happened to break it. I was considering to ditch support for the Image that comes with the tinkerboard and instead look at using Armbian as a base as it looks like it's better support. I cannot offer any advice until I have looked at this.
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@BuZz on that note ive tried using armbian but it seams that only tinkeros is actually bootable on the tinkerboard.... any ideas why?
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@E3L1 No - I've yet to try Armbian on the Tinker board.
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@BuZz so ive been looking around, do I need to disable the desktop interface for emulationstation to work?
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so got armbian to boot, the problem was that I put a paperclip through the run pinouts for tinker os, armbian dous NOT boot with them shorted.... will now try armbian install
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Well I’ve managed to get everything installed and running though for some reason there is this strange audio thing happening, literally 50% of the time when starting games the audio is missing but like super predictable like start game no audio, restart same game audio, restart again no audio.... any ideas?
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@E3L1 , try this:
In terminal type:
sudo nano /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf
Then Change
defaults.pcm.card to 1
To
defaults.pcm.card to 0
Save, exit, and reboot.
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