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    Retropie on x86 GalliumOS - Menu Flickering

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    • g2000G
      g2000
      last edited by g2000

      Hello everyone. After having success with my last Chromebook / Retropie build, I came across another (slightly better model) chromebook which I decided to give a go. Its an Acer R11 which uses a Braswell processor (as opposed to the Baytrail version I did a while back). Slightly better specs but again nothing to write home about ;) Has at least a touch screen which doesnt help any for retropie, cool when I'm using it to just surf and fold it over like a tablet.

      So the issue I am having is as follows: While on the menu, I noticed a slight flicker of the screen. As I went into any menu selections the flickering would get worse. Flickering seems to happen even when I switch it over to HDMI.

      • Played with the VRAM settings, didn't help.
      • Disabled all power management settings, screensaver etc.
      • Added xset s off && xset -dpms in the xsession
      • Tried using other themes like carbon, no luck
      • Tried changing the resolution to 1280x720 (native its 1336x768), seemed like that made it worse.
      • In the shortcut (desktop) added -profile=RetroPie as someone suggested in another post I was reading, didnt make any difference.

      The good news is emulation is perfectly fine. Anything I tried worked flawless. Any ideas or thoughts? As always, thanks in advance for any assistance :D :)

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      • mituM
        mitu Global Moderator
        last edited by

        Try disabling the compositor (compton/weston ?) or run EmulationStation as a fullscreen borderless window with:

        emulationstation --windowed --resolution 1336 768
        
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        • g2000G
          g2000 @mitu
          last edited by

          @mitu - Thanks! So adjusting the transparency didn't help (set terminal and panel to solid colors). Tried in windowed mode and that flickering stopped. It seems compton is messing things up. Killed the task: pkill compton and it worked. I'll play around with it some more and let you guys know. Thanks again!!! :D

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          • g2000G
            g2000 @g2000
            last edited by

            Update: Disabled compton from startup and everything works like a charm! Thank you again. :)

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            • J
              jameelperkins31
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              @g2000 hello @g2000 I'm Jameel Perkins Asking IS It possible For u to help me by watching this video please I Really Wanna try to see if I can get across to play GameCube N Wii games

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