@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.

that worked. THANKS!
yes it was 49686 for product id but i had a typo for vendor id, that's 1133 instead if 1133.

Thank you very much!

@WeirdGamerAidan Like @sleve_mcdichael stated you need an OS.

My advice is here however, not to install Ubuntu since its footprint on the hardware is rather big compared to other Linux distro's.

My personal favorite is Xubuntu x64. Works perfectly with RetroPie but has a smaller footprint, thus leaving more for RetroPie to use, thus giving a better performance for emulation. N64 games run better on the same hardware with Xubuntu, compared to Ubuntu.

Nice thing about Xubuntu is that it's very flexible and performs great on older hardware, whereas Ubuntu requires more power. The biggest difference between Ubuntu and Xubuntu is the desktop interface, but that one can really consume your hardware.

@sleve_mcdichael aahh ok, so it's cause it's not on a Raspberry, ok that makes sense then. Thank you

@mitu It looks like there were some dependencies missing that we're causing the issue.

user@user-OptiPlex-5060:~$ sudo apt-get install -f libgbm-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libqt5widgets5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.5) but it is not going to be installed or libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.5) but it is not going to be installed libqt5x11extras5 : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.8+dfsg~) but it is not going to be installed or libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.8+dfsg~) but it is not going to be installed qt5-gtk-platformtheme : Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.10.0) but it is not going to be installed or libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.10.0) but it is not going to be installed E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

To fix this, I ended up installing aptitude and installing the missing packages simply because aptitude gives much better verbose output for dependency issues as well as a simple way to resolve the conflict.

user@user-OptiPlex-5060:~$ sudo aptitude install libgbm-dev The following NEW packages will be installed: libgbm-dev The following packages will be upgraded: libgbm1 1 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 52 not upgraded. Need to get 9,092 B/38.0 kB of archives. After unpacking 93.2 kB will be used. The following packages have unmet dependencies: libegl-mesa0 : Depends: libgbm1 (= 21.0.3-0ubuntu0.3~20.04.1) but 21.0.3-0ubuntu0.3~20.04.2 is to be installed The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Upgrade the following packages: 1) libegl-mesa0 [21.0.3-0ubuntu0.3~20.04.1 (now) -> 21.0.3-0ubuntu0.3~20.04.2 (focal-updates)] 2) libgl1-mesa-dri [21.0.3-0ubuntu0.3~20.04.1 (now) -> 21.0.3-0ubuntu0.3~20.04.2 (focal-updates)] 3) libglapi-mesa [21.0.3-0ubuntu0.3~20.04.1 (now) -> 21.0.3-0ubuntu0.3~20.04.2 (focal-updates)] 4) libglx-mesa0 [21.0.3-0ubuntu0.3~20.04.1 (now) -> 21.0.3-0ubuntu0.3~20.04.2 (focal-updates)] Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] Y The following NEW packages will be installed: libgbm-dev The following packages will be upgraded: libegl-mesa0 libgbm1 libgl1-mesa-dri libglapi-mesa libglx-mesa0 5 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 48 not upgraded. Need to get 9,092 B/10.8 MB of archives. After unpacking 138 kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Y user@user-OptiPlex-5060:~$ sudo aptitude install libdrm-dev The following NEW packages will be installed: libdrm-dev The following packages will be upgraded: libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm-common libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-radeon1 libdrm2 6 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 42 not upgraded. Need to get 131 kB/284 kB of archives. After unpacking 680 kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y user@user-OptiPlex-5060:~$ sudo aptitude install libpciaccess-dev The following NEW packages will be installed: libpciaccess-dev 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 42 not upgraded.

After installing the missing packages the basic install went through without issues.

I got retroarch libretro's pcsx2 working if anyone wants
to make a script for this one as well..

A different bios location is needed so far...

Instructions are in the last post on thread link below.

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/31074/pcsx2-install-on-ubuntu-20-04/3?_=1633627954899]

@yfzdude said in Should i get Debian x64 ?:

@crush
Dolphin does require a 64-bit operating system. To fix that you need to reinstall using the x86-64 or amd64 version of the installer or image.

When any documentation here mentions x86 it is simply using it as a term to indicate PC/Laptop hardware as opposed to ARM based hardware.

Ok thanks, i had misunderstood then, and you're right, it works fine now on the x64 distribution.

Yes, you rock !

it works with this change
indeed in the file /opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh

changed the line : id="$(echo "$line" | awk '{ print $2 }' | grep "([0-9]\{1,\}x[0-9]\{1,\})")" with this line id="$(echo "$line" | awk '{ print $2 }' | grep -o "(0x[a-f0-9]\{1,\})")" And the line : mode_id[1]="$($XRANDR --verbose | grep " connected" | grep -o "([0-9]\{1,\}x[0-9]\{1,\})")" with this line mode_id[1]="$($XRANDR --verbose | grep " connected" | grep -o "(0x[a-f0-9]\{1,\})")"

Now the video mode selection is working great
Many thanks

@Twerkem It was fixed a little while ago, that's why I asked to update the script again, there was nothing wrong with your setup/configuration.

great installation are done (y)

thank you. it's ok.

I can connect to ubuntu with the IP and my passeword in Winscp. not need a IP in Retropie.

It looks like this is fixed for me. I didn't do anything special. Just waited some time and then updated the lr-reicast package via the RetroPie Setup script, and lr-reicast is working again. Thanks to the developer(s)!

Please help!

@BuZz Thank you very much for the reply. I figured it would work as 32bit software generally works in a 64bit environment. I guess I was really just posting because I wanted to know of there were any particular omissions.

However, I needn't have worried. I installed ububtu and retropie on my NUC today. With the instructions on the Retropie site it couldn't have been easier. I am extremely pleased with the result. The increased power let's me use run ahead and disable video threading. I still love my Pi's though, and they will definitely see use.

@johnodon Yeah, I was referring to pc.

On my overclocked Pi 3, I also use Mame2010. It is good enough to handle it. But that should not bother you. In fact, I have an third emulator for arcade games (fba), because there are a lot games working better. On PC, I just could use the newest version. But if your pc is a little bit old, then performance could still be a problem with some 3D titles.

@mitu for sure

Hello @johnodon, good morning, how are you? Dear, please ask a question regarding the installation:

I have a small problem with my installation.
I use the Ubuntu server, running on a notebook with a processor:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2350M CPU at 2.30 GHz
After following the step-by-step configuration, I have detected this error when booting the system:

"Last login: Monday, December 4 03:37:51 2023
There is no such key “default-show-menubar”
There is no such key “default-show-menubar”

My version of Ubuntu is

Description: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
Release: 22.04
Codename: jammy
I emphasize that when the system starts, the control image appears in the shape of a cupcake, then the error appears.
What can this be?
thanks

Nobody got this issue? :/

EDIT for PCSX2: all is ok. It works fine. Found how to do :D
EDIT for PSX: can't find anything for this issue. And if tehre are 2 players, i have to do same change for all players, not only for the first one.
Yet, when game is loading I can see Core remap file loaded. But doesn't use config in this file.

@movisman good to hear you're going to go back to it!

In the end the e35 wasn't powerful enough and required legacy AMD drivers. I ended up with an ASRock AIO board rocking an Intel J3160 and it is flying.

After a huge amount of experimentation Linux Mint XCFE was my final distro. Light enough to keep performance high and startup times low but feature-full enough that I can back out of ES and use it for other things should the mood take me.

My RPi3 kinda got abandoned in the end due to hitting SD card limits or poor performance in PSX and 64 games so with this x86 install giving me that extra oomph, I'm fully invested again!