Amiberry 5.1 and black screen

sirhenrythe5th

@ZzackK ok, thank you!

Just for interest: as i have no data concerning Amiga on my Pi, that is worth safeable: is there no way in Linux to uninstall a program / core completly to restart from scratch?
Something like "delete c:/amiberry/☆.☆" in MS-DOS?

mitu

@sirhenrythe5th said in Amiberry 5.1 and black screen:

Delete both files, reinstall Amiberry and restart the Pi?

I think just renaming the config files should be enough, the installation doesn't touch those files.

is there no way in Linux to uninstall a program / core completly to restart from scratch?

It is, but the problem is usually not the program itself, but the configuration. In this case /opt/retropie/configs/amiga/amiberry can be deleted and the re-installation will re-create the necessary configuration folders, while the configuration files themselves will be created by amiberry, when started.

ZzackK

@sirhenrythe5th Looks old amiberry configs stay even reinstall or uninstall.

sirhenrythe5th

Thank you both a lot.
It may be a stupid question, but i am not sure about that: rename the config files to what exactly? :O

mitu

@sirhenrythe5th Add an emoji at the end of the filename:
amiberry.conf -> amiberry.conf.🤦

sirhenrythe5th

@mitu thank you sir, that did the trick!!!!

Seriously: ok, now i got it :D

sirhenrythe5th

Sadly it did not work for me.
I deleted both config-files, reinstalled Amiberry, started Amiberry with the shortcut in the es-gamelist, but whenever i either start Amiberry in the GUI or by launching a game in the gamelist i get the runcommand window and after a few seconds the mousecursor appears.
This is the moment i know it did not work: mousecursor visible=system freeze:/
Should i build an image from scratch?
I guess there wont be any problems when there was never an Aniberry 3 x on the system before?

ZzackK

@sirhenrythe5th
-uninstall amiberry
-delete all configs amiberry
-delete emulators.cfg
-reboot
-install amiberry

sirhenrythe5th

@ZzackK just to confirm that i get the right config files:
I have found

/opt/configs/amiga/amiberry/emulators.cfg
and
/opt/configs/amiga/amiberry/confs/amiberry.cfg

are these the right ones or are there other relevant configuration files?

nemo93

@sirhenrythe5th please provide details as asked >> https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first. This will help us to help you! Seems you're mixing different things up. It's hard to sort it out.

Definitely something is off as you got the wrong config file. Amiberry default config file has always been named after amiberry.conf and it's located under /opt/configs/amiga/amiberry/confs/.

To wrap things up:

provide details as asked >> https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first
state the exact issue you're facing
post your /opt/configs/amiga/amiberry/emulators.cfg
do you have kickstart ROMs in Retropie BIOS/amiga/ directory?

Transition from Amiberry 3.3 to 5.x is seamless. If it is not then you have done something different on your environment.

You shouldn't rely on +Start Amiberry.sh unless you're absolutely certain of what you do. Everything has been done to ensure best user experience which means you can start any games (.uae, .adf, .chd or better .lha) straight from your frontend. It's the recommended way.

sirhenrythe5th

@nemo93
Raspberry Pi4 4GB
Genuine PSU
Retropie 4.8, updated all packages last week to get cave support in FBNEO. Amiberry has been updated during this process to 5.1
Installed official image from here

I use Amiberry for quite a while, having 1500+ games and they used to run.
I started everyone at least once because i use to sort my games in the gamelist and keep sure they do run before doing that (i.e. not "Alien Breed" but "ACTION - Alien Breed").

So i have all Kickstart ROMs in the BIOS Folder and they seem to be right, otherwise no game would have run with Amiberry 3.x i guess(?)
I wrote the paths and names of the config files from memory as i was not at home when i wrote my last post.
But they are at the location an named as you wrote.

I never changed anything but activated scanlines permanently in the amiberry.conf.
Everything else is default.

EDIT: the error is: i start a game and the runcommand window comes up as it should showing "launching game xy using amiberry"
So far, so good.
After a few seconds the amiga mouse pops up and thats it: Systems freezes and has to be unplugged to restart.
It seems the GUI opens in Background (because of the mouse), but as far as the system freezes i have no way to see what it wants to tell me

sirhenrythe5th

UPDATE: i bought another 512GB SD-Card and made a new image: Amiberry works now (as there is no more metadata from the previous 3.x installation).
So all clear here again :D

sirhenrythe5th

UPDATE 2: one step further in detecting the issue:
it is my controller!
Amiberry (5.1) runs superb as far as no gamepad is comnected.
As soon as i connect one of them (8BitDo SF30 Pro) i have this problem again: mouse appears -> system freezes.

So Amiberry 5.1 seems to dislike my pads, they worked great with 3.x. :/

EDIT: checked the old SD-Card / first try of 5.1 too: does also work without the gamepad connected.

ZzackK

@sirhenrythe5th said in Amiberry 5.1 and black screen:

UPDATE 2: one step further in detecting the issue:
it is my controller!
Amiberry (5.1) runs superb as far as no gamepad is comnected.
As soon as i connect one of them (8BitDo SF30 Pro) i have this problem again: mouse appears -> system freezes.

So Amiberry 5.1 seems to dislike my pads, they worked great with 3.x. :/

EDIT: checked the old SD-Card / first try of 5.1 too: does also work without the gamepad connected.

looks like another configs files makes problems.

sirhenrythe5th

@ZzackK it is a fresh install of Retropie 4.8 and Amiberry 5 1 on a brand new SD-Card i bought yesterday just to get Amiberry working again.
There is no old data on this setup, neither anything else or other tweaks/changes on the system.
Pure Retropie and Amiberry out of the box:/

The Pads are updated to the latest Firmware and work with 16 cores, even SCUMMVM (non-lr) and DosBox, since years.

mitu

@sirhenrythe5th said in Amiberry 5.1 and black screen:

As soon as i connect one of them (8BitDo SF30 Pro) i have this problem again: mouse appears -> system freezes.

Turn on logging from the configuration screen and post the log file on pastebin.com.

sirhenrythe5th

@mitu i allready tried that, but the file was empty.
I fear this happens because the system freezes before it writes the log.
As mentioned i have to pull the plug and after a new power on there is no log :/

mitu

If you have SSH enabled, try looking at the file while Amiberry is started. You can probably also stop the emulator using kill/killall, so you don't have to reboot the system.

sirhenrythe5th

@mitu i never activated SSH as i have no PC at all. From the beginning i use my Android Smartphone via local network and a File Commander to feed my Pi with data. Is there anything i can use from there?

mitu

@sirhenrythe5th Set the log file to /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/amiberry.log and you can access it via file shares, like any other rom folder. For the commands, you'll need SSH - I think there are some SSH apps in the app store that may be usable.