Here's a collection of methods to determine the video ram of a Linux system: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-find-linux-vga-video-card-ram/

No ideas from anyone? Disappointing... But I guess we can't expect to figure out a fix for everything. (especially if my friend is right) EDIT: YEAH, my friend was right. Screen was dying. No longer functioning at all. Sorry to have wasted the time of anyone who read this - fix a dying screen with configuration changes is....kind of impossible.

(Deleted post)

@mitu After reinstalling everything seems to work fine. Will test for a few days now. Thanks for the assistance.

That worked for me! Thanks a lot!

@NeoDude Not a mistake, but it seems something is missing. Do you have OpenGL acceleration working ? Have you used Ubuntu's installer or did you manually install the driver ? I'd recommend using the Ubuntu's PPA packages to install the drivers or the Ubuntu package management app (Software center ?).

Ok, I've updated script and had success to install mame2013-plus. This topic may be closed, thank you!

@mitu Just stumbled over this thread because I am a proud owner of two Aimtrak lightguns since last saturday, and I'm searching for any information about their setup. :) Following the links from the video's description, I found the github page of the script in question: https://github.com/Shakz76/Eazy-Hax-RetroPie-Toolkit/ It seems like it modifies an existing Retropie installation and adds some functionality the author deemed to be useful. I didn't dive deeper into it, because I prefer to use Retropie's own tools as long as they get the job done as well. Getting my Aimtraks to work with any kind of MAME is my next goal, but at present I can't help much further.

@yuke that's just the nature of scaling from one resolution to another. different emulators won't help here, especially as beetle will only run (very slowly) in exactly the same resolution'd software mode, as you won't be able to run it higher resolution open gl mode with the pi's GPU featureset. (even the higher resolution mode I think is a factor of the original resolution anyway, so may still have the issue). you could eliminate the artefacts by running with integer scaling turned on (you'd get small/large borders, though).

@matitrol said in Partitions in the SD: Is it a card problem or something? No, that's normal. The 1st partition is a boot partition and the 2nd one is a Linux partition. On the 1st boot, the 2nd partition will be resized to fit the rest of the free space - up to 16 Gb.

Source install is not working ? I remember the same problem a few weeks back and it was an upstream problem due to their recent changes to the code. Use the binary install if you're on a Raspberry Pi.

I only own pi's and a cheap pc with RetroPie installed so i wouldn't be too much help when it would come down to using a TinkerBoard. But i am sure there might be a video tutorial of something that got it working which you could follow what that person has done and see if you get it working for yourself.

Doh, OK, re-running the script after rebooting fixed it. I must not have rebooted since updating the kernel version. Now I can run jstest /dev/input/js0and see the buttons work as well as shutdown view soft power switch and see LED indicate status. I'm not sure if this post will be useful to others, but one never knows. In any case, the process of writing it out probably helped me figure out what went wrong.

@mitu Sure thing, I will try that today.

@gamebennyboy said in Installed first time: I've installed retropie first time on new raspberry pi 3 as there no emulators installed as how I add emulators on the menu? It my first time. There are many default emulators that do come installed already. But nothing will show up until you add game roms to your roms folder. And no one will be able to tell you where to find the game roms. You will have to let google be your friend. For arcade games you have to be careful about which roms you use as certain emulator versions are only compatible with certain roms built for them. But there is also a lot of crossover. One thing that got me early on is that many game roms are dependant on having other game roms installed as well as they share the same files. But there are instructions on how to make is so that your roms have everything they need all in one too.

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

@geekomaniac Looks like an upstream bug. I suppose you don't have a x86_64 cross-compiler installed ?

@jpod1003 Good to hear. What was the issue?

@mitu Okey thanks for the reply :) i´ll give it another try

@db666 what you posted for windows is same result as posted in the guide and works under ES and emulators.cfg :-)