Installation of Xpad driver failed.

[mitu]

@stabicron said in Installation of Xpad driver failed.:

Same issue and I think the issue is more that the recent update is failing to install the headers
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The headers are installed, but they're not properly configured for the 64bit kernel:

pi@retropie:~ $ dpkg -l | grep kernel-headers
ii  raspberrypi-kernel-headers           1:1.20230425~buster-1                    armhf        Header files for the Raspberry Pi Linux kernel
 
pi@retropie:~ $ ls -ld /lib/modules/5.10.103-v8+/build
ls: cannot access '/lib/modules/5.10.103-v8+/build': No such file or directory
 
pi@retropie:~ $ ls -ld /lib/modules/5.10.103-v7l+/build
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 Mar  8  2022 /lib/modules/5.10.103-v7l+/build -> /usr/src/linux-headers-5.10.103-v7l+

Just apply the workaround I posted above and reboot, then the drivers can be installed without the build errors.

[windg]

It looks that is affect and the building of lr-swanstation from Retropie-Extra repo. So, if someone want to install this emulator add the arm_64bit=0 to config.txt file, reboot and then try again.

log from fail building : https://pastebin.com/yCkm9L2U

[stabicron]

@mitu Forgive me if this seems obvious but I do not see where the config.txt file is stored in this thread. Where is it?

[windg]

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[mitu]

@stabicron It's on the boot partition of the sdcard and you also can find it at /boot/config.txt from your running system. You can run

sudo nano /boot/config.txt

to edit the file after you exit EmulationStation.

[mitu]

@windg said in Installation of Xpad driver failed.:

It looks that is affect and the building of lr-swanstation from Retropie-Extra repo

It's going to affect more than one package, there are quite a few emulators that use uname -m to determine if the system is 32 or 64bit and set the build parameters accordingly. There's no point in keeping track of them, since running a mixed 64/32bit kernel/userspace is not a very common configuration.

[stabicron]

@mitu Thank you. Just tried it and worked for xpad and a couple of the others that were running into the same thing

[MaXxOnRP]

@mitu Thanks for your help. Read it yesterday, tried it and it helped my build too. Best Regards

[windg]

It looks that the change that was added to Raspi Buster Lite, was a mistake. Soon an update will fix this.

[mitu]

@windg said in Installation of Xpad driver failed.:

Soon an update will fix this

The updated packages (kernel/firmware-bootloader) for have been released for Buster, the modifications suggested earlier to config.txt should not be needed anymore.

[MaXxOnRP]

@windg Nice.