@g2000 said in Retropie x86 on GalliumOS - Baytrail audio issues:

@johnodon - THAT DID IT!!! Omg dude thank you! I've been loosing my mind with this. So it ends up there are two resolutions this thing picks up. It defaults to 1366x768 that has two refresh rates 60Hz and 40Hz. The next one is 1360x768 and runs at 60 - 59Hz. Switched it to that and magically it just worked. Cant believe it was something that simple. Canτ thank you enough!

Been there. :D More often than not, 4K TVs are the culprit.

Ok thanks Mitu

@skylo By default, during boot, the native resolution of the screen will be identified, so I don't see any problems.

@skylo You should open a new thread for that new question.

Based on your reply, I deleted and recreated the container and installed RetroPie immediately afterwards. It worked! It's installing now. I'm guessing there was some other package conflict with another app installed. Thank you for your help.

On a PC, RetroPie will need an X server to run and you should have that functioning before starting the installation.
The dependencies are just a few small packages (libSDL mainly and a few other libs) and on a straight Ubuntu install the base RetroPie install should be less then 800 Mb. However, since installation on a PC will compile everything, quite a few -dev packages will be installed (mostly X related) and take space during the installation itself - you can remove them after installation is finished.
If you add more emulators, the RetroPie installation might take more space, but not considerably. I expect the ROM folder and the scraped artwork (video/images) to take (a lot) more than a RetroPie install. If you managed to get your base installation under 5 GB, I think the installation to be fine and still have space to spare. Make sure you have a supported distro - Debian/Ubuntu.

For anyone who might want to give this a try: I just picked up a used Dell Chromebook 13 and with GalliumOS on it, RetroPie installed using the Ubuntu instructions very easily.

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Things run very well, though GalliumOS seems to want to turn on the screen saver even if I'm using my USB controller. The workaround was to go into the power manager and enable "Presentation Mode" so the screen doesn't dim.