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

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?

asianchinaboi

@asianchinaboi oh wait I just figured how to hash it out
I did it and unfortunately it didn’t work it just made the screen smaller so I just put the hash’s back in the config file

Efriim

@asianchinaboi
Okay, then lets try to update emulationstation using retropie_setup.sh

try using the "Tab" key for command line completion
sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh

from there go to Manage packages >> Core packages >> Emulationstation >> Update from binary.

I'm thinking this will automatically install the sdl libraries if they are missing aswell.

Whenever it is that that doesn't work. It might be something else in your config.txt which is not giving your sdl a proper display. It could be helpful to use ssh and copy the text from config.txt into this thread using the ctrl+c ctrl+v combos.