Black screen

90sgamer

I was trying to set up splash screens for my RetroPie on my raspberry pi 5. When I rebooted it the screen went black. Can't get it back. I also might have touched an option for composite enable or disable not really sure what that means but I'm assuming that composite means you are using HDMI output. I really wish the menu was easier to navigate then switching off things but with a touch of a button by accident it's very frustrating.

So it's either the splash screen or the composite but either way I can't get my image back. When it tries to boot it's just a black screen. Everything is updated and brand new however```
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#splashcreens #composite

mitu

@90sgamer said in Black screen:

I also might have touched an option for composite enable or disable not really sure what that means but I'm assuming that composite means you are using HDMI output.

No, composite means video is via the Composite output, which on a Pi5 doesn't have a jack, but the video signal can be extracted from 2 GPIO pins. Either way, this disabled the HDMI output(s) on the Pi.

I really wish the menu was easier to navigate then switching off things but with a touch of a button by accident it's very frustrating.

Which menu are you referring to ?

Support for the Pi5 is still pending in RetroPie and at the moment there's no splashscreen support for it. I don't know how you enabled/installed it, but the current splashscreen code is not enabled on the Pi5 and it's also not working on a Bookworm.

If you've modified config.txt to enable/disable things, that might explain the black screen - especially if you enable the Composite video output. Revert the modifications done to config.txt or copy a default config.txt from a RaspiOS image and you'll probably get the image back.

90sgamer

@mitu I am currently unable to modify edit or replace any config files. Apparently due to the lack of ability to log in from the root. I have yet to figure that out either.

How do I change the composite back to normal?

90sgamer

@90sgamer Ok so I'm settling on the fact that I turned off the composite setting by accident, my thumb grazed the button and changed the setting so when I went back to change it I didnt know what the original setting was 50/50 odds i suppose.

So do we want the composite setting on or off?

In order to edit the config file from a computer, i need to be able to edit files from a computer, everything is read only. Ive been trying to use Putty program to edit but everything is untouchable, I even got to open the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config to try to allow for root login to take restriction off of file editing and its still read only. thats as far as i got

90sgamer

@90sgamer I am starting over with a new image. thanks anyway for your help. disregard previous msgs