runcommand dialog before game sometimes disappears

BuZz

Aaah - you did a manual install on an existing Jessie ?

The screenblanker is probably kicking in.

add consoleblank=0 to the existing line in /boot/cmdline.txt (with a space before it of course so it's an additional parameter)

ufa

@BuZz said in runcommand dialog before game sometimes disappears:

consoleblank=0

Hi BuZz,
I will do that, thank you.
Will try and post results asap

ufa

@BuZz
No more issues. Thank you BuZz. This was bugging me for months.

Sevik

Thank you. I had the same issue. Installed RetroPie on Raspian (lite).

Are there other "tweaks" for manual installations such us this one?

Edit: I added this to the "manual installation" in the wiki:
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Manual-Installation

BuZz

@Sevik In the premade image? Just stuff available from the retropie-setup gui like splashscreen etc.

There is actually a gui config option in RetroPie-Setup -> Configuration / Tools -> Raspbian Tools to disable the blanker, but it doesn't work in Jessie due to a Debian bug.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=122112

Sevik

I used the "Minimal image based on Debian Jessie" from the official homepage . And then followed the instrauction for manual installation.

I missed the gui option or rather I did not understood what it does, so I left it. However, I used the "enable needed kernel modules".

BuZz

The premade RetroPie image is just the Raspbian Lite image with RetroPie installed on top. The only tweaks outside of the RetroPie-Setup gui, are the consoleblank and an additional cmdline.txt change to make the boot a bit quieter.

see https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/master/scriptmodules/admin/image.sh#L70-L112

Sevik

Thank you very much. The RetroPie-Setup gui is fantastic.

RedBatman

This has been happening to me as well. Will this fix still work?

AlexMurphy

@RedBatman Why are you resurrecting this old thread when you have a current one? Why don't you try the fix and see for yourself?