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

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    • asianchinaboiA
      asianchinaboi
      last edited by

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

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      • EfriimE
        Efriim @asianchinaboi
        last edited by

        @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.

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        • mituM
          mitu Global Moderator @asianchinaboi
          last edited by

          @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.

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          • asianchinaboiA
            asianchinaboi
            last edited by

            I am running it through the console

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            • mituM
              mitu Global Moderator @asianchinaboi
              last edited by

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

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              • EfriimE
                Efriim @Efriim
                last edited by

                @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

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                • asianchinaboiA
                  asianchinaboi
                  last edited by

                  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

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                  • EfriimE
                    Efriim @asianchinaboi
                    last edited by

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

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                    • asianchinaboiA
                      asianchinaboi
                      last edited by

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

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                      • EfriimE
                        Efriim @Efriim
                        last edited by

                        @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?

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                        • asianchinaboiA
                          asianchinaboi @Efriim
                          last edited by

                          @Efriim yes I am certain

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                          • EfriimE
                            Efriim @asianchinaboi
                            last edited by 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.

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                            • asianchinaboiA
                              asianchinaboi @Efriim
                              last edited by

                              @Efriim ok

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                              • asianchinaboiA
                                asianchinaboi @Efriim
                                last edited by

                                @Efriim it just says command not found

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                                • EfriimE
                                  Efriim @asianchinaboi
                                  last edited by

                                  @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.

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                                  • asianchinaboiA
                                    asianchinaboi @Efriim
                                    last edited by

                                    @Efriim what do you mean by hashing it out?

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                                    • asianchinaboiA
                                      asianchinaboi @asianchinaboi
                                      last edited by

                                      @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

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                                      • EfriimE
                                        Efriim @asianchinaboi
                                        last edited by 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.

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                                        • asianchinaboiA
                                          asianchinaboi
                                          last edited by

                                          Gotta go to sleep I will do that tomorrow

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                                          • mituM
                                            mitu Global Moderator
                                            last edited by mitu

                                            You problem is most likely caused by uninstalling libsdl2instead of libsdl2-dev. Re-installing the package through apt would not solve it, since RetroPie uses its own version, with OpenGL ES support. The version distributed by Raspbian runs needs an X.org (desktop) environment to run.

                                            To re-install the RetroPie SDL2 version, run:

                                            sudo $HOME/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_packages.sh sdl2 install_bin
                                            

                                            Try again starting Emulationstation and see if it works.

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