Help! Keyboard not working

sonicsheppard

Hi,

I believe I have the same issue as well. This started after a kernel update yesterday (apt-get upgrade / apt-get dist-upgrade). Now my keyboard no longer works in emulationstation when I try to edit metadata, also when I exit emulationstation I can temporarily see the keystrokes on the command screen. Since the kernel update I was also seeing a controller SDL server error being spammed when launching an emulator - "The key you just pressed is not recognized by SDL" (using Bluetooth WiiU Pro controller) - this may or may not be related.

After formatting my card and reinstalling the Raspberry Pi 3 RetroPie 4.1 img I noticed the problem also occurred when installing the core "ppsspp" (the non-libretro one) and not doing any kernel updates. It also occurs when updating retroarch through the binary. So guessing at least some of the required kernel update files that retroarch and/or ppsspp uses is at least part of the problem?

Please let me know if there's anything else anyone would like me to try.

Thanks.

BuZz

If you updated RetroPie-Setup it might be related to the sdl2 update I did. I'll check. What version of RetroPie-Setup are you on?

sonicsheppard

@BuZz

I did update the RetroPie script as well, I'm currently on the latest - 4.1.3.
The Linux kernel version is 4.4.32-v7+ arm71.

Thanks.

BuZz

@sonicsheppard

[edit] Please can you try installing Emulationstation from source first and if that doesn't help do the following:

I have downgraded sdl2 to test. Please update Retropie-Setup and update emulationstation (which should force the version of sdl2 to downgrade).

BuZz

If that fixes it, iI will do some further testing as it might be that I need to recompile all sdl2 apps - actually I should have asked you to test that first (rebuilding ES from source before updating).

sonicsheppard

@BuZz

Rebuilding emulationstation from source has indeed fixed both issues for me (keyboard and sdl spam with WiiU Pro Bluetooth controller).

Thanks very much @BuZz , please let me know if there's anything else you'd like me to try out.

Thanks

BuZz

@sonicsheppard Can I just confirm that was before updating retropie-setup again ? If so, I will put sdl 2.0.5 back, but rebuild all binaries against it. Note if you update again before then, you will get SDL 2.0.4 since it's been put back, and you may need to re-install the sdl2 apps again for the same reason.

sonicsheppard

@BuZz

Sorry, I instinctively updated the RetroPie-Script before rebuilding emulationstation from source. I'm in the middle of starting from scratch to try and confirm rebuilding emulationstation from source does work without updating the RetroPie-Script from 4.1 after a kernel update.

Will get back with you asap.

sonicsheppard

@BuZz

Hi, I don't seem to be able to repro this issue any more. After a full format and reinstalling the 4.1 img and then updating the kernel it works as expected, updating the RetroPie-Script to 4.1.3 still works, and updating emulationstation via the binary works as well.

Will let you know if I get this problem again.

Thanks

BuZz

@sonicsheppard You won't be able to reproduce it since I put sdl back to 2.0.4 - I will do some further testing with 2.0.5 myself.

sonicsheppard

This issue is back for me when using a completely fresh 4.1 image install on Raspberry Pi 3, and then updating to RetroPie-Script 4.1.8 this morning. I had also installed the openxcom emulator and dependencies from the zerojay experimental menu, in case some of those dependencies had an affect - https://github.com/zerojay/RetroPie-Extra/blob/master/scriptmodules/ports/openxcom.sh

Thanks.

thx1200

@sonicsheppard Back for me as well on Pi 0. I don't have any experimental packages installed. I just tried updating EmulationStation again from binary. No dice. Going to try source next.

BuZz

@thx1200 this doesn't help - what is exactly back ? what version of retropie ? (including git revision). Please detail the problem.

Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

Please open a new topic and provide some more details.

BuZz

@sonicsheppard ~~not sure how you have updated to retropie 4.1.8 as the current version is 4.1.10~~ [edit] I missed the date - please open a new topic - nothing changed relating to this original issue before 4.1.8 - your issue may be completely unrelated to the problem first reported in this thread (which was related to sdl - and that didn't change again to 2.0.5 until 4.1.10)

Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

Please open a new topic with details of the problem as it may be unrelated to this ticket.

thx1200

The same problem sonicsheppard, the topic of the post was back -- the keyboard not working. Context. In any case, I recompiled SDL2 and EmulationStation from source and all is now well for me.