New "Black Screen of Death"
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I will attempt to start this all over again. I'm still in the process of reducing the resolution of my videos. But I decided rather than try to fix this, I'll go back a few steps. I'm having another issue (unrelated to the black screen, rebuilding the kernel caused the raphnet north-west drift to return). So I restored from an SD card backup I made back in February when things were mostly working. I'm going to try doing an update to the installed packages WITHOUT updating the kernel. There might be something that got updated there that broke it.
As it is right now, restoring the backup has made everything go back to working. This was an image I made prior to scraping for videos, and obtaining a version of EmulationStation and Carbon themes that supported it. It works like the way it did before, static images, games load and return to ES just fine. Once I finish updating, I'll test again. I made a backup of my gamelist.xml files to a temp folder on my computer so I can restore them with the modified locations of the videos.
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@hansolo77 this sounds like a great solution! After updating to the latest ES from source I might suggest you add videos to just one system first and see how it runs. Then add videos to systems one system at a time. Doing this will help determine if your build hits a certain threshold of video data it can handle. Keep us posted and good luck!
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Success!!
It's definitely something in the underlying kernel that, upon updating, breaks whatever fixes were implemented into EmulationStation. I just went through a system-wide "update all installed packages", then moved over my backed up gamelists and videos. Then I went in and updated EmulationStation from source (the binary is still the previous version without the OMX player), and updated the Carbon theme. Rebooted. All videos show up fine, in full res, playing a game and returning to EmulationStation now works without a black screen. I will test a bit more, but it looks solved!
Lesson/Solution - Don't update the kernel.
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@hansolo77 great! Glad to hear.
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Now all I have to do is find a pretty theme I like rather than the nasty black Carbon.
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