@mitu оООО!
Oh thank you! on the hundredth attempt, it still worked itself

@jalbarracin welcome :-)

@diptwit there is no desktop in retropie. You are not installing retropie. Follow the guide.

Alas, then I'm out of ideas. 😔 Maybe someone else has more.

@yaya said in Pi 4 Black Screen after autostart:

may you should add this information into the FAQ ;-)

That's not a bad idea - we'll have a PI4 specific page 'really soon'. Have fun !

So I went back and looked it up. It was in the autostart.sh. I deleted a line and it works and I still get to keep my background music. Thanks for your time :).

Wait, I got it. There was a boot to desktop option which I missed. Oops.

@mitu @Clyde That was it! I should've known and feel like such a dummy. The correct path is indeed /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/atari2600/Yarrev.bin

But now I know the all-know runcommand.log :)

Thanks a trillion! <3

@MaMikee Or this one
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I don't need this, but thanks for sharing with those who do.

@Clyde, this is a co-workers unit and he couldn't remember all of the details about it but I think that you are correct about it being a non official retropie image. It had a very out-dated version and when I updated everything is where the issue happened. I will talk with him at work Monday, explain what happened and let him know that I will set him up with an official copy.

Thanks to all that offered help with this issue.

Think I figured it out. Disabled the splash through Emulation Station. Didn't realize it was in there, thought it was changed in the config script for RetroPie. Now everything works.

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/FAQ/#how-do-i-boot-to-the-desktop-or-kodi

@mitu

Yes, I did what you said and I succeeded to lower boot time to 11 seconds for libretro emulator but only through autostart.sh.
However, non-libretro emulators still starts about 5 seconds faster through the rc.local script and I dont know what else I could do here.
It seems runcommand is a problem, because for some reason it refuses to start through rc.local properly...

Genius . Thank you very much. very happy now :-)

Hi,

I had RetroPie running on Mint for a short time and I didn't need to mess with the fullscreen options. All I did was add a startup delay of 3 seconds to the RetroPie entry. This stopped the issue. I would leave it as fullscreen and try that? I think this happens because if ES starts before X is running it doesn't launch. Not sure though but a slight delay should resolve.

Perfect! Exactly what I needed. Thank you!