Retropie 1/Zero WIreless Keyboard is not detected.

mitu

Do you need to pair the keyboard first (via Bluetooth) or do you have an USB dongle that's paired with the keyboard ?

StalinIsMyFriend

@mitu it's a dongle

mitu

Do you use an USB hub then, or the dongle is miniUSB ? The PI zero is a bit finicky about USB hubs.

StalinIsMyFriend

@mitu I just use micro usb to usb adapter

mitu

Then I guess the adapter doesn't work with the Pi zero.
Can you run

cat /proc/bus/input/devices

and see if the USB dongle shows in there ? You can also try to unplug the dongle, run sudo dmeg -c, then plug it in again and run dmesg again - this should show the Linux kernel detection messages (if any).

StalinIsMyFriend

@mitu i'll try when I get home

StalinIsMyFriend

@mitu ok, seems like I am actually getting an error at boot, somehow I just didn't notice it before. So, before the emulationstation has started, I could type in the console (the characters show up) but after the emulationstation started the keyboard is unresponsive. I get this:

Unhandled fault: alignment exception (0x011) at 0x0031f8d
pgd = ccf20000
[00031f8d] *pgd=0b0ea831, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000
Bus error

mitu

Try installing manually RetroPie over Raspbian Stretch Lite - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Manual-Installation/.
You can also try enabling SSH and take a look at the system log with dmesg to see which program crashes with the error you mentioned.

StalinIsMyFriend

@mitu Seems like I am getting kernel errors - here is a sample:

Message from systemgd@raspebrrypi at Oct 15 18:16:56 ...
kernel: [256.033913] Code: e1a00006 ebffae41 e51b1034 e3510000 (e1a04000)

StalinIsMyFriend

@mitu *Never mind, I updated the pi and now it seems to be working (as in I can install the retropie. When it will install I'll see if it would work or not)

StalinIsMyFriend

This topic should be closed, as I figured that it's not actually because of the keyboard. Comes out the RetroPie just freezes by itself on start