i get this error when i try to boot up emulationstation and now it’s all weird and some of the font is missing

asianchinaboi

Type: raspberry pi 3 b+
Connected devices: keyboard and Xbox one controller
Built from: a 128gb Samsung sd card with a RetroPie image

lvl0: Error initializing SDL!
No available video device
lvl0: Renderer failed to initialize!
lvl0: Window failed to initialize!

this is the log

Guide used: https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroPie/comments/8zydae/guide_running_halflife_and_possibly_other_goldsrc/

Efriim

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/21665/installing-retropie-on-raspian-rpi3-b/4

Use the command;
sudo raspi-config to change the open gl driver to default under advanced settings. You will also want to make sure the gpu memory split is high enough. As I noticed setting the openglKMS driver will set the gpu lower.

Efriim

@asianchinaboi
Was the half-life install successful?

asianchinaboi

I am doing that right now

asianchinaboi

I changed it to legacy and it still didn’t work

Efriim

@asianchinaboi
Well maybe that is not the solution. I think that the opengl driver has a different error. You will need to exit the desktop space and run emulationstation from that CLI and not xterm.

mitu

@asianchinaboi Emulationstation doesn't work with Xorg, X11 - if you're starting Emulationstation from your desktop session, this doesn't work. Also, please note that the OpenGL Desktop driver is not compatible with RetroPie, if you enable it, at least make sure you disable Emulationstation auto-starting on boot.

asianchinaboi

I am running it through the console

mitu

@asianchinaboi Please add more info about your system - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first and post your config.txt file.

Efriim

@asianchinaboi
Sorry to run you for the loop, I got this error mixed up twice. You can also change the startup mode from desktop-autologin to commandline-autologin(emulationstation) using raspi-config

asianchinaboi

I have a feeling that it’s the libsdl2 and libsdl2-dev I uninstalled and reinstalled from attampting to fix something that wasn’t in the guide

Efriim

@asianchinaboi did you update your sources.list?
It should be easy enough to reinstall sdl using apt

asianchinaboi

Yeah I tried to do that but it still had the same error

Efriim

@Efriim
I uninstalled libsdl2-dev and emulationstation still worked.
However reinstalling libsdl2 meets broken dependencies, I guess I'll figure that out later.

Are you certain you are trying to enter emulationstation after exiting completely from the desktop environment?

asianchinaboi

@Efriim yes I am certain

Efriim

@asianchinaboi
I'm reading through the half-life install, but in the meantime you could try
sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh
And update. It will update all the emulators too, so hopefully nothing will break and it will take a while.
Or you can go into core packages and update just emulationstation.

asianchinaboi

@Efriim ok

asianchinaboi

@Efriim it just says command not found

Efriim

@asianchinaboi
I probably mistyped it. Oh well forget the whole update thing.
Inside /boot/config.txt you added some lines for the framebuffer depth and alpha pass try hashing those out and rebooting.

asianchinaboi

@Efriim what do you mean by hashing it out?