@StonedEdge said in joy2key not working - Orange Pi 5 (Ubuntu Jammy 22.04):

Hmm, this might be why. I am having trouble installing RetroArch at the moment (didnt realise that was a dependency of joy2key).

It's not a direct dependency, but joy2key reads the RetroArch's configuration profile for the gamepad and the default configuration - if you have neither it will not work anyway.

At the moment when I try to install Retroarch from the setup script, I am encountering this log:

Can you post the complete log ?

In order to execute EmulationStation from terminal I need to use malirun which is basically X11 packaged blob drivers. Using Wayland drivers results in a crash: [...]

I have briefly tested Wayland on the OrangePi5 since my installation was nuked by an Armbian update. You should try to get a working system, which doesn't require this sort of fiddling with the drivers - have you tried https://github.com/Joshua-Riek/ubuntu-rockchip ?