@benzine78 dont forget # is a £

@Hex
I tried with VNC.
ssh to Pi , start VNC
Open VNC from my PC, open LXterminal in VNC, run emulationstation

It didn't work too.

@kmickelow well, I created the theme and you are correct, no raspbian. First would be a simple kind request for it to be created! These things take hours to put together and it is all done for free! Second I was not aware a large amount of users ran raspbian in there retropie Es_systems menu and haven't seen many themes that have it included? If there is a large need, I can add it to the list of to be completed updates. Thanks

@RedOwen1177 Try ifconfig your Pis IP will / should show under wlan0

@sunmetis Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

You should probably use the premade image.

RetroPie also comes with own sdl2. You can't run it from the desktop btw. It won't work with the Jessie SDL2.

@zequico Are you using a VPN? That might be causing your issue.

@BuZz Thanks for all the info.

I am pretty new to Linux but I think I should be okay with the VPN portion of it by following a guide.

As for enabling VPN on boot for RetroPie, that should be as simple correct? Just SSH into the Pi and edit the settings there?

Sorry for the dumb questions!

@Krisu not a good first response to get help here.

How about:

Because I asked you to. It may not be the same issue - cause may be different. Lots has changed in 2 years. The forum wouldn't work if everyone used one topic per type of issue.

@NowArrivingHere bad sdcard perhaps. Make sure you are not over clocked etc too.

Advmame includes advmess also and has binaries

@cpcbegin That's great! You're welcome.

Hello,

Sorry to revive a old topic but I have the same issue, and so I thought I'd add my details in case anyone has more info since last time:

Raspberry PI 3B Retropie 4.3 BLE Keyboard Logitech K830

As OP, the keyboard is discovered and it claim pairing is successful, but it's not usable :(.

I found the post below on stack Exchange that looks promising (suggesting installing latest BlueZ module), but before I attempt the steps myself, I wanted to check if anyone has tried it for retropie.

"Does RPi 3 have BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy/Bluetooth 4.0/Bluetooth Smart)"
https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/61758/does-rpi-3-have-ble-bluetooth-low-energy-bluetooth-4-0-bluetooth-smart#answer-61775

Thanks!
Tim

@Xerox_Boxington I just installed the desktop under Ports...

First two half-assed attempts failed for me. It was like when i updated the pixel packages and/or installed the package, it would halt, and then give me some msg about connection being lost. So i upped the game and tried some different stuff, and i have no idea as to which of the steps actually solved the problem, but i can tell you what i did, at least :)

I did a clean reboot, this time not pairing my PS3 bluetooth controllers, so only my wireless keyb/mouse.

Used keyboard to 'exit emulationstation', so my Pi was in the terminal state.

Then i went to my PC, connected to the Pi through Putty and did the rest of the steps from there.

First i updated the retropie-setup script successfully, then i updated the Pixel package successfully. You will not have doubt when it works; it will continuously write Linux'ish stuff to the screen about packages being downloaded, updated, unpacked, installed and what not. This will take a while. Keep a look at this, to make sure it goes smooth and there are no error msgs.

After that, i could install the Pixel package (still doing this from the PC through Putty with my Pi in the terminal screen).

When it was all done, i tried to type in 'startx' which it tell you to do in the tutorial that you linked, but i just got errormessages that it was no good... anyways, i did a 'sudo reboot', went to the orts menu, selected 'desktop' and my Linux desktop booted right up. VERY sexy :)

So, all this might be awfully clumsy considering that i still have very little knowledge about Linux and the RetroPie stuff, but i am sure that you can reproduce the steps and end up with a desktop too :)

On a sidenote, the Pi and RetroPie keeps on amazing me! If it was't for your initial post, i had never imagined that this could be done, so thank you :) Now i have a cool Linux PC + a badass emulation hub all in one sexy little package!

@herb_fargus

Is there any way to manually add this? Or by copying certain files from the old un-updated version?

@BuZz said in Error Creating SDL Window:

The relevant information is

The RetroPie SD image is built on top of Raspbian lite (Raspbian without the PIXEL desktop environment) RetroPie can also be installed on top of the full Raspbian but you can't run Retropie and PIXEL at the same time, you will need to logout of the PIXEL desktop environment in order to run emulationstation and the emulators RetroPie installs.

You may do better with a premade image though - and then install the desktop from there.

facepalm that must be it. I read it and forgot immediately. And of course when I went back to troubleshoot I only read through the step-by-step stuff.

Okay, so excuse my noob ignorance, but how do I "logout of the PIXEL desktop environment" so I can use the terminal only?

@polygaryd You only have a copy of Kodi in your system, the shortcut is probably installed by the Kodi package.

@SohailNassiri No problem. Again. I'm just sitting watching YouTube and doing not very much. Happy to help. Most people on this forum are more than willing to help out someone struggling but they do expect you to read the resources available and to provide all the info needed. Simply because everyone's set-up is so different and there are so many variables that it can just turn into a guessing game sometimes. Anyway, good luck. If you encounter any further issues unrelated to installation I would advise you to search the forum first then start a new thread if you can't find a solution.

@Jiehfeng Hi how did you make raspbian its own "system" and not just in the ports menu? thanks in advance