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    Lubuntu 19.10/Retropie Font error

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    • mituM
      mitu Global Moderator @TheRavensGuild
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      @TheRavensGuild Post your es_log.txt file to see if you have the same error or not.

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        TheRavensGuild @mitu
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        @mitu I'm still pretty new with this. where would I find said file?

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        • mituM
          mitu Global Moderator @TheRavensGuild
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          @TheRavensGuild In $HOME/.emulationstation. Or you could take the advice above and run emulationstation --debug from an xterm/gnome-terminal windows and post the output.

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            TheRavensGuild @mitu
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            @mitu I got this

            May 12 22:17:49 lvl2: 	EmulationStation - v2.9.1rp, built May 11 2020 - 14:32:55
May 12 22:17:49 lvl2: 	Parsing XML file "/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/resources/mamenames.xml"...
May 12 22:17:49 lvl2: 	Parsing XML file "/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/resources/mamebioses.xml"...
May 12 22:17:49 lvl2: 	Parsing XML file "/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation/resources/mamedevices.xml"...
May 12 22:17:49 lvl2: 	Creating window...
May 12 22:17:49 lvl2: 	Created window successfully.
May 12 22:17:49 lvl2: 	GL vendor:   
May 12 22:17:49 lvl2: 	GL renderer: 
May 12 22:17:49 lvl2: 	GL version:  
May 12 22:17:49 lvl2: 	Checking available OpenGL extensions...
May 12 22:17:49 lvl2: 	 ARB_texture_non_power_of_two: MISSING
May 12 22:17:49 lvl1: 	Tried to enable vsync, but failed! (No OpenGL context has been made current)
emulationstation: /home/name/RetroPie-Setup/tmp/build/emulationstation/es-core/src/resources/Font.cpp:398: void Font::renderTextCache(TextCache*): Assertion `*it->textureIdPtr != 0' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)
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            • mituM
              mitu Global Moderator
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              Sure enough, looks identical to the original poster's error, which makes me believe you don't have accelerated OpenGL 2.0. Can you post the output of glxinfo to pastebin.com ? What hardware/GPU do you have ?

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                TheRavensGuild @mitu
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                @mitu https://pastebin.com/w4bDw33C

                Im running an Intel Atom N455, and integrated graphics

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                • mituM
                  mitu Global Moderator @TheRavensGuild
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                  @TheRavensGuild Your card doesn't support OpenGL 2:

                  ..
OpenGL version string: 1.4 Mesa 20.0.4
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                    TheRavensGuild @mitu
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                    @mitu Oh. Is there any way around this?

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                    • mituM
                      mitu Global Moderator
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                      You can try an older EmulationStation version, by modifying the scriptmodule for EmulationStation to use 2.9.0 instead of the stable branch. After that, re-install from source the emulationstation package. Note that modifying the script locally will break the RetroPie-Setup script updates, so you'll have to revert your changes before doing an update.

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                        TheRavensGuild @TheRavensGuild
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                        On an interesting side note, i managed to boot EmulationStation while using ChromeRemoteDesktop, which is weird

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                          TheRavensGuild @mitu
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                          @mitu i'm gonna be honest, that made like zero sense to me. I'm still extremely new to this. If it's not too much of a bother, may you please make a step by step guide for the process.

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                          • mituM
                            mitu Global Moderator
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                            If editing files around is not something you're familiar, then my suggestion is to find a system with a bit more performance and has the righ GPU. Even if you'd manage to get EmulationStation working, other programs/emulators might have similar requirements and you'd be struggling to make it work.

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