@mitu Thanks again for your help.
It appears to be every Emulator, nothing is working now. Will start again and hope it works.

@mitu this has been long overdue for lr-flycast. I recall I had to submit a PR to get the Pi4's Vulkan driver working some months ago.

@x20011 You have to talk to the Experimental Pi's author(s), we don't support 3rd party images. Use the image from retropie.org.uk/download and we can provide support.

Im also having issues with the bluetooth and connecting 8BITDO controllers on RetroPie 4.7.1 on the raspberry pi 4.
I've tried about a dozen different tutorials.

When I go back to retropie 4.6, they connect straight away without any issues,

Any ideas?

@mitu said in Rpie Linux Mint BadWindow error:

Wayland

The hardware is Celeron N2808, 4gb ram and not using wayland

I've "solved" by keeping "pi" as login user and disabling password when doing sudo
thanks

Please add a better title for your post and some details about your setup, as asked in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

@androidonpi The errors appears because you're running RetroPie from the desktop environment. As @dankcushions mentioned, this is not a supported configuration. On the Pi4, drastic will run by starting an X server first (as a few other ports already do), if you're already running in a desktop environment, that won't work.

On a PC (Ubuntu & forks, Debian, etc.), EmulationStation should be started from a desktop environment, not from a terminal.

@mitu It works, im in!

Thank you so much!

I found the solution, so I'm posting it here for anyone else that runs into this problem. This solution is for for those using a Dell 2007fpb monitor, and the Retropie install from ArcadeModUp.

#1 Don't bother trying to use an HDMI -> DVI adapter, some monitors will immediately enter Power Save mode no matter what you do. Use an HDMI -> VGA adapter instead and save yourself the trouble.

#2 You need to set the correct resolution on boot.

Connect a USB keyboard to the Raspberry Pi and press F4 to enter the linux shell. Type:

cd /boot
sudo nano config.txt

Find & change these 2 lines to:

hdmi_group=2
hdmi_mode=51

Hit Ctrl-X, and Y to save the file.

#3 The Dell 2007fpb monitor will ONLY work with 1600x1200 resolution. Since there is no reason to support any other resolution just edit your global retroarch.cfg file and set it there for everything.

Here's how:

Connect a USB keyboard to the Raspberry Pi and press F4 to enter the linux shell. Type:

cd /opt/retropie/configs/all
sudo nano retroarch.cfg

Scroll down and find these 2 lines:

video_fullscreen_x = "0"
video_fullscreen_y = "0"

Change them to:

video_fullscreen_x = "1600"
video_fullscreen_y = "1200"

Hit Ctrl-X, and Y to save the file.

Everything should work now just as well as it did before you replaced your monitor!

@john1967 please fill out https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

booting to emulationstation is default behaviour for the official image, however here is how to configure it for a manual installation: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/FAQ/#how-do-i-boot-to-the-desktop-or-kodi

@buzz Am aware, but i didnt know what the issue was. Thanks.

Hello
What was the fix that you came up with. I'm getting the same error.

@zefolhadela Nintendo 64 is hit and miss on a Pi 3. A proper power supply might help somewhat, but really picking the right emulators for each game will be the way forward if you want to increase performance.

The download server is a bit overloaded - try again now.

@mitu fixed