Odroid XU4 SDL Problem Emulationstation

ray3d

Ok I give the command and these were the results:

 dpkg -l | grep -i 

ii  libsdl-gfx1.2-5:armhf                  2.0.25-9                              armhf        drawing and graphical effects extension for SDL
ii  libsdl-gfx1.2-dev:armhf                2.0.25-9                              armhf        development files for SDL_gfx
ii  libsdl-image1.2:armhf                  1.2.12-8                              armhf        Image loading library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 1.2, libraries
ii  libsdl-image1.2-dev:armhf              1.2.12-8                              armhf        Image loading library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 1.2, development files
ii  libsdl-mixer1.2:armhf                  1.2.12-14                             armhf        Mixer library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 1.2, libraries
ii  libsdl-mixer1.2-dev:armhf              1.2.12-14                             armhf        Mixer library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 1.2, development files
ii  libsdl-net1.2:armhf                    1.2.8-5                               armhf        Network library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 1.2, libraries
ii  libsdl-net1.2-dev:armhf                1.2.8-5                               armhf        Network library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 1.2, development files
ii  libsdl-sound1.2:armhf                  1.0.3-8                               armhf        Sound library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 1.2, libraries
ii  libsdl-sound1.2-dev:armhf              1.0.3-8                               armhf        Sound library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 1.2, development files
ii  libsdl-ttf2.0-0:armhf                  2.0.11-4                              armhf        TrueType Font library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 1.2, libraries
ii  libsdl-ttf2.0-dev:armhf                2.0.11-4                              armhf        TrueType Font library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 1.2, development files
ii  libsdl1.2-dev                          1.2.15+dfsg2-0.1                      armhf        Simple DirectMedia Layer development files
ii  libsdl1.2debian:armhf                  1.2.15+dfsg2-0.1                      armhf        Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libsdl2-2.0-0:armhf                    2.0.8+1mali                           armhf        Simple DirectMedia Layer
hi  libsdl2-dev:armhf                      2.0.8+1mali                           armhf        Simple DirectMedia Layer development files
ii  libsdl2-image-2.0-0:armhf              2.0.3+dfsg1-1                         armhf        Image loading library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 2, libraries
ii  libsdl2-image-dev:armhf                2.0.3+dfsg1-1                         armhf        Image loading library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 2, development files
ii  libsdl2-mixer-2.0-0:armhf              2.0.2+dfsg1-2                         armhf        Mixer library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 2, libraries
ii  libsdl2-mixer-dev:armhf                2.0.2+dfsg1-2                         armhf        Mixer library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 2, development files
ii  libsdl2-net-2.0-0:armhf                2.0.1+dfsg1-3                         armhf        Network library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 2, libraries
ii  libsdl2-net-dev:armhf                  2.0.1+dfsg1-3                         armhf        Network library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 2, development files
ii  libsdl2-ttf-2.0-0:armhf                2.0.14+dfsg1-2                        armhf        TrueType Font library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 2, libraries
ii  libsdl2-ttf-dev:armhf                  2.0.14+dfsg1-2                        armhf        TrueType Font library for Simple DirectMedia Layer 2, development files

I heard that raspberry pi has an experimental driver open gl and altering config.txt fix the issue, In odroid exist something similar?

mitu

@ray3d You seem to have the correct SDL library installed (2.0.8+1mali is installed by the RetroPie script).
The advice about the OpenGL experimental driver on the PI doesn't apply to Odroid.

ray3d

Yes it seems correct. I will try to look for more but Is very strange. Everything is there.

mitu

@ray3d Are you running Emulationstation from the terminal or from the desktop environment ?

Try running it like this from the terminal

SDL_VIDEO_EGL_DRIVER=/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/mali-egl/libGLESv2.so emulationstation --debug

and see if you get a different result.

ray3d

I’m running now all the tests via SSH: I gave your command and these are the results:

SDL_VIDEO_EGL_DRIVER=/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/mali-egl/libGLESv2.so emulationstation --debug

lvl2:   EmulationStation - v2.7.6rp, built Mar 31 2019 - 02:33:22
lvl2:   Creating surface...
lvl2:   Created window successfully.
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error'
  what():  basic_string::_M_construct null not valid
Aborted
pigame@odroid:~$

What means that?

mitu

@ray3d Looks to be working, you're using an older version of Emulationstation and there's something wrong with your installation.

Did you install from the RetroPie-Setup script or from a 3rd party image ? Did you update your RetroPie-Setup script - what version are you using ?

ray3d

I had from last year the image and I constructed carefully but I didn’t remember present these problems but now I’m a fool because I didn’t make the backup of some things :( Look this is the file: “retropie_packages.sh” and it says _version="1.65 FINAL". What I did is go to:

sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh

Then update retro pie script and that’s all because I don’t know how to update more. Well what I did also went to manage then core and update all from source that are the two things I did nothing else. How can I update maybe with commands and not the GUI? But I don’t know how.

mitu

@ray3d Can you show a screenshot after the start of the setup script - the version should be shown there. The retropie_packages.sh script is not showing the version.

ray3d

This is the picture of what I see:

mitu

@ray3d This is not the RetroPie-Setup script distributed by the RetroPie project - it's probably a 3rd party image (ORA maybe ?). We don't support those images, you should probably ask the creator(s) for support.

ray3d

I installed everything as it says here with the latest version:

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Odroid-XU3-XU4/

I deleted from the retropie setup directory:

Now I see:

https://ibb.co/F4ksdhn

But same error emulationstation. or line for same error. When I installed the new retropie it took almost 3 hours it was a lot of time but did nothing. Same SDL error :(

retrodroid

@ray3d did you ever figure this out?

aaronouthier

I'm not sure if I should create a new topic here, or respond to this one, but I'm sure someone will tell me if I'm doing this wrong...

My issue seems to be the same as above Troubles compiling EmulationStation until I compiled and installed sdl2. Then EmulationStation doesn't start with the same message.

I believe I made it one step further, when I discovered the video driver for Exynos wasn't installed, specifically: xserver-xserver-video-armsoc-exynos . Once I installed that, I get a step further, but still an error.

Feb 09 20:04:05 lvl0:   Error creating SDL window!
        eglQueryDevicesEXT is missing (EXT_device_enumeration not supported by the drivers?)
Feb 09 20:04:05 lvl0:   Renderer failed to initialize!
Feb 09 20:04:05 lvl0:   Window failed to initialize!

Platform: Odroid XU4, 16 GB uSD card, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS from odroid.in site (official). Official RetroPie install script.

Possible culprit or catalyst: Early on, setup complained about some missing Python3 packages. I rectified 2 of the 3, however, package Python3-uinput doesn't seem to exist in the usual repos. I'm not sure where to find it.

Although much of work was done via SSH, tasks requiring xorg were performed, such as running emulationstation, were done from an actual keyboard from the terminal.

aaronouthier

Additionally, I didn't realize that I was supposed to type the "sudo systemctl stop lightdm" in the instructions, as the text isn't formatted in the same way as other text to be typed.

I tried it last night, but was basically told that the lightdm service didn't exist. I tried "sudo apt install lightdm", and it installed a bunch of related xorg package dependencies. Still get the same message when running emulationstation. I dd stop lightdm first.

I'm sure someone will want some more info before they can help, but I don't know exactly what, so I'll await further instructions.

aaronouthier

So, I started over from scratch. Followed the directions a bit more carefully. Only difference is I started with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS again, rather than 18.04 as listed in the instructions.

While compiling Emulationstation, I noticed the following:

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Building 'emulationstation' : EmulationStation - Frontend used by RetroPie for launching emulators
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

Error: unable to open display 
Error: unable to open display 
dpkg: error: --compare-versions bad relation

Is this anything about which I should be worried?

mitu

@aaronouthier said in Odroid XU4 SDL Problem Emulationstation:

Is this anything about which I should be worried?

The messages are from the GL version detection part, which is going to error out if you're running the installation outside of a desktop environment. I'm not familiar with a XU4, but I don't see the platform declared with the x11 flag in RetroPie, so I don't see why it tries the detection. What system is detected by RetroPie-Setup for your system - it should be displayed on the 1st dialog ?

aaronouthier

@mitu I don't know which dialog of which you speak?
I can tell you that there doesn't seem to be an xorg server running, so no desktop environment to detect. I'm guessing some missing packages? Nothing else is really complaining however.

How can I tell for sure if pieces are missing? If something is missing, how can I know what?

mitu

@aaronouthier said in Odroid XU4 SDL Problem Emulationstation:

@mitu I don't know which dialog of which you speak?

When you start the RetroPie-Setup script, it's the first page that shows up, with the RetroPie version, platform, etc. All that interface (and the ones started through the options present) is done using the dialog utility.

aaronouthier

mitu

@aaronouthier It doesn't seem that your system/board is detected correctly. It should detect odroid-xu4 as a platform. Perhaps a more recent kernel has removed the hardware info from /proc/cpuinfo. Can you post the output of the following commands:

cat /proc/cpuinfo
cat /proc/device-tree/compatible