Odroid XU4 SDL Problem Emulationstation

ray3d

I had from last year the image and I constructed carefully but I didn’t remember present these problems but now I’m a fool because I didn’t make the backup of some things :( Look this is the file: “retropie_packages.sh” and it says _version="1.65 FINAL". What I did is go to:

sudo ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh

Then update retro pie script and that’s all because I don’t know how to update more. Well what I did also went to manage then core and update all from source that are the two things I did nothing else. How can I update maybe with commands and not the GUI? But I don’t know how.

mitu

@ray3d Can you show a screenshot after the start of the setup script - the version should be shown there. The retropie_packages.sh script is not showing the version.

ray3d

This is the picture of what I see:

mitu

@ray3d This is not the RetroPie-Setup script distributed by the RetroPie project - it's probably a 3rd party image (ORA maybe ?). We don't support those images, you should probably ask the creator(s) for support.

ray3d

I installed everything as it says here with the latest version:

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Odroid-XU3-XU4/

I deleted from the retropie setup directory:

Now I see:

https://ibb.co/F4ksdhn

But same error emulationstation. or line for same error. When I installed the new retropie it took almost 3 hours it was a lot of time but did nothing. Same SDL error :(

retrodroid

@ray3d did you ever figure this out?

aaronouthier

I'm not sure if I should create a new topic here, or respond to this one, but I'm sure someone will tell me if I'm doing this wrong...

My issue seems to be the same as above Troubles compiling EmulationStation until I compiled and installed sdl2. Then EmulationStation doesn't start with the same message.

I believe I made it one step further, when I discovered the video driver for Exynos wasn't installed, specifically: xserver-xserver-video-armsoc-exynos . Once I installed that, I get a step further, but still an error.

Feb 09 20:04:05 lvl0:   Error creating SDL window!
        eglQueryDevicesEXT is missing (EXT_device_enumeration not supported by the drivers?)
Feb 09 20:04:05 lvl0:   Renderer failed to initialize!
Feb 09 20:04:05 lvl0:   Window failed to initialize!

Platform: Odroid XU4, 16 GB uSD card, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS from odroid.in site (official). Official RetroPie install script.

Possible culprit or catalyst: Early on, setup complained about some missing Python3 packages. I rectified 2 of the 3, however, package Python3-uinput doesn't seem to exist in the usual repos. I'm not sure where to find it.

Although much of work was done via SSH, tasks requiring xorg were performed, such as running emulationstation, were done from an actual keyboard from the terminal.

aaronouthier

Additionally, I didn't realize that I was supposed to type the "sudo systemctl stop lightdm" in the instructions, as the text isn't formatted in the same way as other text to be typed.

I tried it last night, but was basically told that the lightdm service didn't exist. I tried "sudo apt install lightdm", and it installed a bunch of related xorg package dependencies. Still get the same message when running emulationstation. I dd stop lightdm first.

I'm sure someone will want some more info before they can help, but I don't know exactly what, so I'll await further instructions.

aaronouthier

So, I started over from scratch. Followed the directions a bit more carefully. Only difference is I started with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS again, rather than 18.04 as listed in the instructions.

While compiling Emulationstation, I noticed the following:

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
Building 'emulationstation' : EmulationStation - Frontend used by RetroPie for launching emulators
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

Error: unable to open display 
Error: unable to open display 
dpkg: error: --compare-versions bad relation

Is this anything about which I should be worried?

mitu

@aaronouthier said in Odroid XU4 SDL Problem Emulationstation:

Is this anything about which I should be worried?

The messages are from the GL version detection part, which is going to error out if you're running the installation outside of a desktop environment. I'm not familiar with a XU4, but I don't see the platform declared with the x11 flag in RetroPie, so I don't see why it tries the detection. What system is detected by RetroPie-Setup for your system - it should be displayed on the 1st dialog ?