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    Laptop install, cant stop keyboard from being player 1 on PSX

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    • ClydeC
      Clyde
      last edited by Clyde

      After the installation, your "Retropie" menu in Emulation Station should have a new entry "Joystick Selection". (edit: After reading the instructions myself again, you're right, it should appear in the experimental packages).

      I'm using it on my Raspberry Pi 3B, my Pi 4B, on a normal X86 pc running Kubuntu 18.04, and on my Laptop running KDE Neon 18.04. So, I can confirm that it works on Linux for X86, but I don't have any experience on (K)Ubuntu 20.04 yet.

      What exact steps did you take to install the script?

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      • xboxisoX
        xboxiso
        last edited by

        Hi Clyde. I'm really glad to hear it works on RetroPieX86. Perhaps I just did something wrong then. I'm totally new to both RetroPie and Linux. All I did to install was enter this into terminal:

        wget -O- "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/meleu/RetroPie-joystick-selection/master/install.sh" | sudo bash

        Was there more I was supposed to do?

        Thank you so much for all of your help.

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        • ClydeC
          Clyde
          last edited by Clyde

          That should be all, actually. And you really don't have an entry „Joystick Selection“ under „Retropie“ in Emulation Station afterwards? You should have these files:

          /home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu/joystick_selection.sh
          /home/pi/RetroPie/retropiemenu/icons/joystick_selection.png
          /opt/retropie/configs/all/joystick-selection.cfg
          /opt/retropie/supplementary/joystick-selection
          /opt/retropie/supplementary/joystick-selection/joystick_selection.sh
          /opt/retropie/supplementary/joystick-selection/jsfuncs.sh
          /opt/retropie/supplementary/joystick-selection/jslist                                                                                                                                                                                              
          /opt/retropie/supplementary/joystick-selection/retropie.pkg                                                                                                                                                                                        
          

          edit: You can list all related files and directories with this command:

          locate "joystick" | grep --color=never selection
          

          (I chose this over a simple locate joystick-selection to get the "joystick_selection" with an underscore, too. The --color=never is to avoid the coloured output from grep.)

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          • xboxisoX
            xboxiso @Clyde
            last edited by

            @Clyde I looked and can't find these directories on my system. I installed this by entering the above mentioned line in terminal. RetroPie was not running. Was I supposed to add that line in RetroPie somehow?

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            • xboxisoX
              xboxiso
              last edited by

              I just tried it again and can't find those files.screen.jpg

              Attached is a screenshot of the output after running that code.

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              • ClydeC
                Clyde
                last edited by Clyde

                If the output remains like this for a longer time (5-10 minutes), it seems that the installer hangs or otherwise doesn't finish.

                You could try to execute both commands that are separated with the | one after another:

                wget "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/meleu/RetroPie-joystick-selection/master/install.sh"
                

                (mind the missing -O-)

                sudo bash install.sh
                
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                • xboxisoX
                  xboxiso
                  last edited by

                  Thank you again for all of your help. I will try executing these commands separately. Hopefully this works. : )

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                  • xboxisoX
                    xboxiso
                    last edited by

                    Here is the output I get when attempting to run the above referenced script:

                    screen.jpg

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                    • ClydeC
                      Clyde
                      last edited by

                      It says that curl is not installed. You can install it with

                      sudo apt install curl
                      
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                      • xboxisoX
                        xboxiso
                        last edited by xboxiso

                        After installing curl it worked. I was able to run this tool. Unfortunately it did not solve my problem as the keyboard still shows up as controller port one no matter what I do. I think this must be an issue with Sony Vaio laptops. I installed RetroPie X86 on an HP laptop last night and did not run into this issue at all. The keyboard on the HP does not show up as a controller in RetroPie with that laptop. Unfortunately this may be a lost cause.

                        I do really appreciate all of the help you have provided and we did succeed in installing this software on my laptop, it just did not seem to resolve the issue. Thank you for all of your help.

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                        • K
                          kevin55605
                          last edited by

                          Hi

                          Just attempting my first install , on Ubuntu 18.04...on a Sony Laptop of all things.
                          Being a newb I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong...I'd discovered all of the things suggested above (swapping controller ports etc) in other posts or searches...nothing worked. When I found this post I was almost glad to see it wasn't just me :)

                          I'd just like to add that I was able to resolve this by blacklisting the "sony_laptop" module. This will disable the "Sony_Vaio_Keys" device that appears as a joystick (I suspect these are the "special" keys for brightness,volume,enable-disable wifi, etc). Not sure what else this will disable, but it seems to work.

                          Hope this helps.

                          I

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                          • ClydeC
                            Clyde @kevin55605
                            last edited by

                            @kevin55605 Thanks for sharing your findings.

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