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      ralh
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      Sorry, I'm a bit of a RetroPie noob and didn't realize it didn't use X at first.

      After installing xorg and changing /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config to say allowed_users=anybody everything works.

      Thanks for help!

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        psyke83 Global Moderator @ralh
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        @ralh said in SteamLink for Raspberry Pi Released:

        Sorry, I'm a bit of a RetroPie noob and didn't realize it didn't use X at first.

        After installing xorg and changing /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config to say allowed_users=anybody everything works.

        Thanks for help!

        Thanks for the update. IIRC, the RetroPie script usually removes xserver-xorg-legacy as an alternate to having to edit that file.

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          PureSmoke @psyke83
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          @psyke83 I'm on Retropie 4.4.4 and SteamLink doesn't load for me. I get a black screen with just a cursor (which I can move with the Dualshock 4 trackpad). My /boot/config.txt is actually empty, so I don't even have the option to comment out the scanlines option. How do I fix this?

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            Baz
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            I think I broke it. Installed it fine and entered the code on my OC to connect but then had the bright idea to configure my controller. However it had already recognised it was a OS4 pad and really I didn’t need to do anything! I completely messed up the button mapping and now no button works except d-pad doen which quits steamlink. 😭 I have tried uninstalling, restarting system and reinstalling but every time it remembers my dodgy controller configuration. Really I think I need to uninstall steamlink, restart system and FTP in and delete all traces of steamlink, restart system again and then install it fresh. I tried this once but clearly didn’t get every trace. If anyone can help me solve this (without a completely fresh installation of retropie!) I’d be very grateful. Where do I need to look for steamlink configs and stuff?

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              hhromic @Baz
              last edited by hhromic

              @Baz after uninstalling (and before reinstalling), try deleting the following directories:

              $HOME/.local/share/SteamLink
              $HOME/.local/share/Valve Corporation
              

              Also check in your $HOME/.config and $HOME/.cache directories for any traces of steam link.

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                RetroAK
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                Has this been pulled?
                I'm running 4.4.4, made sure my retropie_setup script is up to date by running an update just now, yet I'm not seeing "steamlink" in the experimental extentions.
                I recently joined the retropie community and setup my rom machine just a couple weeks ago. Can't imagine why I'm not seeing this listed... would love to have this integrated in emulationstation.

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                  mitu Global Moderator @RetroAK
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                  @RetroAK Yes, it's been integrated for some time - are you running a RPI 3 ?

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                    RetroAK @mitu
                    last edited by RetroAK

                    @mitu I'm not running any form of pie hardware. I installed on top of a lubuntu install using a micro PC I've had around as a previous HTPC. Can post hardware specs and OS details in a little bit.
                    Should it still be found under experimental?

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                      mitu Global Moderator @RetroAK
                      last edited by

                      @RetroAK Steamlink is only available for the PI3 - that's how Valve released the package.

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                        RetroAK @mitu
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                        @mitu Ah, well crud. That would explain it. All my searching and I missed that simple detail. Thanks much, I'll press on researching other options.

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                          RetroAK @mitu
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                          @mitu unless, of course, you know the right direction to point me for integrating steam streaming with retropie on non-pie builds. I'm guessing it has to do with Moonlight?
                          I'd honestly be happy to just add a launch shortcut in my menu of emulators that just opens the desktop steam app

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                            RetroAK
                            last edited by RetroAK

                            So, this may not be the proper place, but if anyone ends up here wanting a simple solution for steam being integrated in your emulationstation and you're NOT on Pi hardware, this works great and I thought I'd add it here to save you some time.

                            Install Steam, then add this under <systemslist> in:
                            etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg

                              <system>
                                <name>steam</name>
                                <fullname>Steam</fullname>
                                <path>/home/steve/RetroPie/roms/steam</path>
                                <extension>.jpg</extention>
                                <command>steam -bigpicture</command>
                                <platform>steam</platform>
                                <theme>steam</theme>
                              </system>
                            

                            Create a "steam" folder in your RetroPie/roms directory and plop a jpg in there.
                            Simple as that. Any theme that already has eye candy for Steam in your menu knows what to do. Exiting Steam brings you back to emulationstation.
                            You could install Steam games on the machine you're using for RetroPie or just stream from your main desktop gaming rig with Steam streaming--already a part of the full desktop app.

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                              mitu Global Moderator @RetroAK
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                              @RetroAK I guess you can use Moonlight (it's available also in the experimental packages) if your main PC has an Nvidia video card which support it.

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                                hhromic
                                last edited by hhromic

                                @mitu
                                Moonlight is not yet available officially in the RetroPie experimental section, I hope to submit it as soon as I finish some last polishing that I have in mind.

                                However, moonlight-embedded (the version I'm using in that scriptmodule) is also only available for RPI devices (and potentially other SBCs, just not x86). For a full desktop environment the right one to use should be moonlight-qt:

                                https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-qt

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                                  Venturegirl @Purduecoz
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                                  @Purduecoz I'm having the same problem, the day I installed steamlink it worked from Emulation station but now it won't, only from the shell.

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                                    Darksavior
                                    last edited by Darksavior

                                    I had to uninstall xorg and install the legacy version to get this working. I'll say, I'm rather impressed. I tried some version of the steam link app I had to manually install a few months ago and it was just absolute garbage. It couldn't get a good signal despite my pi being next to the router, even then, the skipping made it annoying to use. It wouldn't see my pad either. All's been resolved with this. It's great. I fired up Cuphead np.

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                                      Darksavior
                                      last edited by Darksavior

                                      Looks like entering retropie-setup removes the xorg legacy package. Is there a way to get it working with the latest xorg package? I was getting permission problems with that one.
                                      Fatal server error: (EE) xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 2 (Permission denied)

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                                        psyke83 Global Moderator @Darksavior
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                                        @Darksavior said in SteamLink for Raspberry Pi Released:

                                        Looks like entering retropie-setup removes the xorg legacy package. Is there a way to get it working with the latest xorg package? I was getting permission problems with that one.
                                        Fatal server error: (EE) xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 2 (Permission denied)

                                        Xorg and steamlink should be working correctly without the legacy package (which needs to be removed due to permission issues with Xorg.wrap). I think we'll need more details than a single line to troubleshoot your issue.

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                                          Darksavior @psyke83
                                          last edited by Darksavior

                                          @psyke83 AH, nevermind. Fixed it. Removed xorg and all its dependencies and reinstalled it all. Works now. No idea why it had permission problems in the first place. I'm using the official image.

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                                            Darksavior
                                            last edited by Darksavior

                                            @psyke83 In reinstalling the xorg package, it was also reinstalling the legacy stuff so then my problem restarted. So now I've uninstalled xorg, auto removed the remaining unused packages, and uninstalled the steamlink app. I then reinstalled the steamlink app and let that install the dependencies. Same permission problem. Here's the log.
                                            https://pastebin.com/B0x2qCig
                                            Legacy was working fine because I edited /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config and added allowed_users=anybody but that only exists for the legacy version?

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