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    Ubuntu 19.04 issues

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      Neo-Rio @mitu
      last edited by Neo-Rio

      @mitu
      I've been uising Xorg, but trying to flip over to Wayland makes no difference. I even installed the hwe package.
      It must be some AMD driver problem. Even emulation station seems to judder a little as system logos move left to right.
      It's not just mame2010 either, but a whole slew of the default emulators from the basic install are buffering

      If you can tell me how to get the log from a session, I'll upload.

      For the record, here's my "inxi -Gx" output.
      Remember that this is just a system with an AMD 2400G and using built in graphics.

      Graphics:
      Device-1: AMD Raven Ridge [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series]
      driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 08:00.0
      Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: amdgpu resolution: 1024x768~60Hz
      OpenGL: renderer: AMD RAVEN (DRM 3.27.0 5.0.0-13-generic LLVM 8.0.0)
      v: 4.5 Mesa 19.0.2 direct render: Yes

      Also glxinfo -B:

      name of display: :0
      display: :0 screen: 0
      direct rendering: Yes
      Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
      Vendor: X.Org (0x1002)
      Device: AMD RAVEN (DRM 3.27.0, 5.0.0-13-generic, LLVM 8.0.0) (0x15dd)
      Version: 19.0.2
      Accelerated: yes
      Video memory: 2048MB
      Unified memory: no
      Preferred profile: core (0x1)
      Max core profile version: 4.5
      Max compat profile version: 4.5
      Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
      Max GLES[23] profile version: 3.2
      Memory info (GL_ATI_meminfo):
      VBO free memory - total: 1829 MB, largest block: 1829 MB
      VBO free aux. memory - total: 3039 MB, largest block: 3039 MB
      Texture free memory - total: 1829 MB, largest block: 1829 MB
      Texture free aux. memory - total: 3039 MB, largest block: 3039 MB
      Renderbuffer free memory - total: 1829 MB, largest block: 1829 MB
      Renderbuffer free aux. memory - total: 3039 MB, largest block: 3039 MB
      Memory info (GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info):
      Dedicated video memory: 2048 MB
      Total available memory: 5120 MB
      Currently available dedicated video memory: 1829 MB
      OpenGL vendor string: X.Org
      OpenGL renderer string: AMD RAVEN (DRM 3.27.0, 5.0.0-13-generic, LLVM 8.0.0)
      OpenGL core profile version string: 4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 19.0.2
      OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.50
      OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
      OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile

      OpenGL version string: 4.5 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 19.0.2
      OpenGL shading language version string: 4.50
      OpenGL context flags: (none)
      OpenGL profile mask: compatibility profile

      OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 19.0.2
      OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20

      glxgears works at above 60FPS as well.

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        Neo-Rio @Neo-Rio
        last edited by

        Never mind. I am a teapot.

        My monitor refresh rate was somehow set to 23Hz in the system settings !
        I set it back to 60Hz and everything is back to normal!

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          dgallina
          last edited by

          Just to add a data point: I did an in-place upgrade of my Ubuntu 18.10 RetroPie install to 19.04 without issue using the suggested config file change above.

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          • BuZzB
            BuZz administrators
            last edited by

            Same here. I can't yet reproduce the issues above and I removed all SDL2 dependencies.

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            • BuZzB
              BuZz administrators
              last edited by

              I will install a fresh 19.04 in a vm to test though.

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              • BuZzB
                BuZz administrators
                last edited by

                Did anyone post a log? Didn't see one but it may save time to see what the fail was on 19.04.

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                • mituM
                  mitu Global Moderator @BuZz
                  last edited by

                  @BuZz I don't think there was anything besides the SDL2 dependency and the other posters confirmed it was working fine once that is fixed.
                  I don't have the Debian Buster system that exhibited the problems at hand, but for the 19.04 I didn't get any errors during installation. I bumped the SDL2 version in sdl2.sh before starting the basic installation.

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                  • BuZzB
                    BuZz administrators @mitu
                    last edited by

                    @mitu I'd like to see the full log from any 2.0.8 SDL install fail as it's working here without bumping the version.

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                      tchuyev
                      last edited by

                      Hi,

                      1./ Bumped from 2.0.8 to 2.0.9 using Ubuntu 19.04 and it does indeed solves this issue.

                      However, when doing an 'sudo apt update', I get:

                      The following packages have unmet dependencies:
                      libsdl2-2.0-0 : Breaks: libsdl2-2.0-0:i386 (!= 2.0.9+1) but 2.0.9+dfsg1-1ubuntu1 is installed
                      libsdl2-2.0-0:i386 : Breaks: libsdl2-2.0-0 (!= 2.0.9+dfsg1-1ubuntu1) but 2.0.9+1 is installed
                      libsdl2-dev : Depends: libsdl2-2.0-0 (= 2.0.9+dfsg1-1ubuntu1) but 2.0.9+1 is installed
                      E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

                      Running 'sudo apt --fix-broken install' would NOT solve the issue:
                      dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libsdl2-2.0-0_2.0.9+dfsg1-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
                      trying to overwrite shared '/usr/share/doc/libsdl2-2.0-0/copyright', which is different from other instances of package libsdl2-2.0-0:amd64
                      Errors were encountered while processing:
                      /var/cache/apt/archives/libsdl2-2.0-0_2.0.9+dfsg1-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
                      E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

                      2./ Using latest Pop!_OS 19.04, I also get the following error messages at the end of a basic install:

                      Could not install package(s): libxkbcommon-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libvulkan-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libavdevice-dev nvidia-cg-toolkit libfreeimage-dev libfreetype6-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev cmake libvlc-dev libvlccore-dev vlc rapidjson-dev mc feh cmake libsamplerate0-dev libspeexdsp-dev libpng-dev libglew-dev libboost-filesystem-dev nasm flex bison libpng-dev libglew-dev nasm libpng-dev

                      Any suggestions please?

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                      • mituM
                        mitu Global Moderator @tchuyev
                        last edited by mitu

                        @tchuyev said in Ubuntu 19.04 issues:

                        Any suggestions please?

                        Have you followed @buzz's advice to modify the /opt/retropie/configs/all/retropie.cfg file ? This should make use of the distro's packages for libSDL, so there shouldn't be any conflict.

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                          tchuyev
                          last edited by tchuyev

                          Thanks, running this set of commands solved all of my issues:

                          $ sudo sed --in-place 's/2.0.8/2.0.9/g' $HOME/Git/Retropie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary/sdl2.sh
                          $ echo "own_sdl2=\"0"\" >> /opt/retropie/configs/all/retropie.cfg
                          $ sudo rm /usr/share/doc/libsdl2-2.0-0/copyright
                          $ sudo apt remove libsdl2-dev
                          $ sudo apt --fix-broken install
                          $ sudo apt autoremove
                          $ sudo ./retropie_setup.sh (Basic install)
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                          • ParabolaralusP
                            Parabolaralus @tchuyev
                            last edited by

                            I finally got around to installing this directly on my laptop (Kubuntu 19.04) last night and may tonight setup my desktop.

                            To clarify on @tchuyev post listed above;

                            If you're doing a clean install, setup your OS first and then run:
                            echo "own_sdl2="0"" >> /opt/retropie/configs/all/retropie.cfg
                            And everything should be hunky dory doing a basic install at that point.

                            If you skip that step and start the basic install (which i lol did) youll need to run because retroarch will fail to compile:
                            sudo apt remove libsdl2-dev
                            then if you havnt already:
                            echo "own_sdl2="0"" >> /opt/retropie/configs/all/retropie.cfg
                            And your basic install, or retroarch itself should be ok.

                            I didn't have to use the sed command at any point, nor did i have to --fix broken install. Im assuming that these may be required if you're upgrading?

                            So far all normal cores work fine and even Dolphin as well as PCSX2 1.5.0 (dev) from the PPA.

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                            • BuZzB
                              BuZz administrators @tchuyev
                              last edited by

                              @tchuyev please send me a full log as it's working on my 19.04. check logs folder under RetroPie-Setup

                              I can fix this with a full log without having to do a new install but no-one has provided one yet.

                              To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                              • BuZzB
                                BuZz administrators
                                last edited by

                                Ok. Actually I just worked it out from your snippet above and apt-cache.

                                So now libavdevice58 has a dependency on the SDL version included with Ubuntu. Probably overly strict to require that specific version. May report this upstream.

                                I will maybe just use 2.0.9 for x11 targets and default to off as mentioned earlier.

                                Imho this is a packaging error. Makes it impossible even to use a newer SDL2 too.

                                To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                                • BuZzB
                                  BuZz administrators
                                  last edited by

                                  Please can you try this

                                  https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/pull/2696

                                  I threw it together quickly but solves the issue with retroarch dependencies for me.

                                  To help us help you - please make sure you read the sticky topics before posting - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

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                                  • ParabolaralusP
                                    Parabolaralus @BuZz
                                    last edited by Parabolaralus

                                    @BuZz Id love to help, but i have absolutely no idea what to do with that...It would be easy for me to set up a clean VM and test what you did, but im clueless as to what to do with that link.
                                    Edit: Fail

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