@Jolt said in Keyboard configuration issues with an IPAC2 in a Retropie/Pi/Mame arcade setup:

I tried to go into ../config/all/retroarch.cfg and update the configuration there back to the MAME default, but it ignores that an uses the incomplete mapping I did last night.

retroarch.cfg is not the MAME configuration file, it's RetroArch's, which happens to also run MAME cores.

I looked on forums a bit and it suggested to run the retropie_setup.sh, but I'm a bit concerned about how much that will roll everything back.

Running the setup script will not do any un-intended configurations. You can use the reset configuration menu and you'll be able to start over with the EmulationStation's input configuration.

Is there a way to reset all the keyboard controller work only? Or is there a way to manually hardcode the Emulation Station controls like I've done in the rertoarch.cfg?

You can manually add the configuration in EmulationStation, but it's better to go through the input configuration - see above on how to reset the configuration and start anew.

@Aroenai said in Fresh RetroPie install on Debian 12 x86_64, keyboards not recognized in emulationstation:

Built From: Debian 12 net install (no GUI, installed to external USB 3.1 flashdrive) installation script from https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup

Actually now I noticed this - we don't support nor test running from the CLI on a PC, a desktop environment (X11/Wayland) is required on that platform.

If you still want to run it via KMS/DRM, check if your user is part of the input/video/render groups.

solved, thank you.