Odroid XU4 SDL Problem Emulationstation

aaronouthier

Just installed python3-urwid. The SDL2 packages were installed from source. Do I still need python3-sdl2, or is that taken care of by the main sdl2 source package? I don't want to mess-up/overwrite anything that was installed manually.

aaronouthier

FWIW, speaking of sources, I was able to download the sources with 'apt source python3-uinput' from current repos. Not too sure how I can incorporate that into the existing build.

I've compiled stuff before, but never via apt-source.

mitu

@aaronouthier said in Odroid XU4 SDL Problem Emulationstation:

Do I still need python3-sdl2, ...

Yes, only the SDL library is compiled into a package, the rest are expected to be provided by the distribution's repostories.

aaronouthier

@mitu I was pretty sure this was the case, but wanted to be certain.

aaronouthier

Dang it!

running build
running build_py
running build_ext
building '_libsuinput' extension
arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -fno-strict-overflow -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -O2 -Wall -fPIC -I/usr/include/python3.12 -c libsuinput/src/suinput.c -o build/temp.linux-armv7l-cpython-312/libsuinput/src/suinput.o
libsuinput/src/suinput.c: In function ‘suinput_emit’:
libsuinput/src/suinput.c:48:28: error: ‘struct input_event’ has no member named ‘time’
   48 |         gettimeofday(&event.time, 0);
      |                            ^
error: command '/usr/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc' failed with exit code 1

Trying to build the source package.

Was logged-in as root. I don't think that would make a difference though.

aaronouthier

@mitu Not able to install the 22.04 version either. Depends on Python3.10 or below, but Python3.12 is installed.

At this point, I think I'm going to wipe the SD card and try again with 22.04 .

aaronouthier

Currently compiling the system for xu4 under Ubuntu 22.04 Operating System. No problems yet. (Need to go knock some wood now...)

aaronouthier

Well, about 1.5 hours later, compilation finished. No errors reported during compile process that I could see, however, emulationstation crashes when run.

I tried with --debug flag, however the screen is cleared by the crash dialog that comes up, so I can't read. I'll try tee'ing it to a text file.

aaronouthier

@aaronouthier I watched a bit closer. Nothing out of the ordinary displayed when running with --debug flag. Just shows loading some xml files.

On a related note, however, Xserver does NOT seem to be running. I am attaching a tar.gz file with all of the build logs, a log of installed packages, and a log of running processes.

Hmm. Can't seem to upload it directly.
Link to files on my Google drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ro_ZYzHFcI6TfbSUjzsLksvwf6rc9vMy/view?usp=sharing

mitu

@aaronouthier said in Odroid XU4 SDL Problem Emulationstation:

I tried with --debug flag, however the screen is cleared by the crash dialog that comes up, so I can't read. I'll try tee'ing it to a text file.

That would have been useful to look, the other logs not so much. You can find the same log file in $HOME/.emulationstation/es_log.txt, there's no need to tee it.
Does detection works better on 22.04 - is the SBC detected as odroid-xu ?

aaronouthier

@mitu

I checked those logs. 3 lines about mame-related .xml files.

No, still detects as "Armv7l". I used your workaround when I ran RetroPie-Setup.

I mentioned twice now that XWindows doesn't seem to be running. Very few X-related packages installed as well. This might be normal, but I don't have a frame of reference here. This was the case in 24.04 also.