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    • gsasso
      gsasso last edited by gsasso

      I'm in the process of building a wall mounted arcade. I'm using a Raspberry Pi 4 with Retropie 4.6. I want to have the monitor vertical (to play PacMan, Dig Dug, Galaga, etc) I can't figure out how to get this to work. I already tried the command

      display_rotate=3

      That didn't work. If I boot to the desktop and flip the screen

      Preferences/Screen Configuration

      Then launch emulationstation that seem to be ok but I want it to go into emulationstation without any interaction. Plus I don't want to have a keyboard plugged in.

      Built from: Retropie on top of OS and tried Pre made image on Retropie website
      Power Supply used: came with Raspberry Pi
      USB Devices connected: EG Starts Emulator
      Controller used: Sanwa
      Error messages received: No error message

      Guide used: (Mention if you followed a guide)
      Emulator: emulationstation / Mame 2003

      Any suggestions?
      Thanks,

      Greg

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      • mitu
        mitu Global Moderator last edited by

        The display_rotate options do not apply to the Rpi4 - see https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/config-txt/video.md.
        This post provides some suggestions on how to workaround that - not a complete solution to display_rotate, but should cover most situations.

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        • gsasso
          gsasso @mitu last edited by

          @mitu Thank you for the information. Do you know if there is any plans for update to fix issue?

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          • mitu
            mitu Global Moderator @gsasso last edited by

            @gsasso said in Screen Orientation:

            Do you know if there is any plans for update to fix issue?

            I don't think so.

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            • Lolonois
              Lolonois last edited by

              Hi @gsasso welcome to Retropie forum.

              apt-mark is your friend (at least it is mine).

              Depending on your re-do appetite here is a recipe:

              1. Backup your previous work/config, at least:

                /opt/retropie
                /home/pi
                /etc
                /boot/config*
                /boot/cmdline*
                
              2. Download the latest premade RetroPie image (MD5 9154d998cba5219ddf23de46d8845f6c at the time of writing) and flash.

              3. Log on to the RetroPie.

              4. Run apt-cache policy raspberrypi-kernel, it should return something like

                apt-cache policy raspberrypi-kernel
                raspberrypi-bootloader:
                  Installed: 1.20200212-1
                  Candidate: 1.20200212-1
                  Version table:
                [...]
                

                Note the date 2020-02-12, make sure you stick to this:

              5. Run apt-mark

                sudo su
                apt-mark hold libraspberrypi-bin
                apt-mark hold raspberrypi-kernel
                apt-mark hold raspberrypi-bootloader    
                apt-mark hold raspberrypi-kernel-headers
                apt-mark hold raspi-config
                apt-mark hold rpi-eeprom
                
              6. Now you may run apt-get update && apt-get upgrade combo and restore files from your backup.

              HTH

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              • mitu
                mitu Global Moderator @Lolonois last edited by mitu

                @Lolonois I don't think that will help. display_rotate=1 and display_rotate=3 were never supported on the Pi4, only display_rotate=2 (and this is the only thing that was removed in the last kernel/firmware update). Did they worked before the update for you ?

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                • Lolonois
                  Lolonois last edited by

                  @mitu good point. So one can use rotation of 90 or 270 degrees BUT the width and height is not exchanged on my proposed setup. Thus my hint only works flawless for 180 degree screen rotate installations.

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