Roms won't load on Pi 4 when booted to emulationstation
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I'm having a strange issue with retropi on a pi 4. If the system is configured NOT to boot to emulationstation, and I start emulationstation manually, the roms load and run just fine. However, if I configure the system to boot to emulationstation, then the roms appear but cannot be loaded. It's like there is a process or environment variable or something that is set when xwindows starts that isn't there when booting to emulationstation. Has anyone else seen this problem? If I exit emulationstation, run startx and then open a terminal window and start emulationstation manually, it again runs the roms just fine again.
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EmulationStation is meant to be run from the terminal, not directly from a desktop session - this is the configuration that we recommend and support.
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@mitu I'm taling about something that happens after using the provided setup utility to set "boot to emulation station" If this is done, the roms no longer load
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Please provide some info about your setup - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.
If any errors appear during ROM launching, they'll be logged to
/dev/shm/runcommand.log- try to get a verbose log and post the contents of the file on pastebin.com. -
@mitu I figured it out, I had to set the raspberry pi video output for 1920 x 1080, it was defaulting to 1360 x 768 and Emulation station couldn't work with that.
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