Piboy - xpi_gamecon error on boot (but it works)

Jod

Hey, I'm running retropie on my piboy and get this weird message for the briefest of seconds every time I boot.

It looks like

Failed to start Shutdown xpi_gamecon.

I already tried to reinstall xpi_gamecon/1.0 according to some other post successfully, but the error remains. I ran retropie setup and other updates several time over the last few days, as well, so I should be up to date.

It doesn't seem to break anything tho, just weird.

OS is raspbian 10
Model: Raspberry 4b

mitu

I don't think this is a driver/package included in RetroPie - what's xpi_gamecon, how do you install it ?

Jod

@mitu I think it's part of the piboy install script.

I did the things in this post (note that I had the error before and after any firmware update)

https://www.reddit.com/r/PiBoy/comments/jnfh3v/i_advise_not_updating_to_newest_firmware_yet/

Also, this is what the systemctl output says

When I check dkms it says it's correctly installed. 🤔

mitu

@jod said in Piboy - xpi_gamecon error on boot (but it works):

When I check dkms it says it's correctly installed.

dkms handles the installation of external Linux kernel modules, but it doesn't guarantee that the module works/loads correctly. xpi_gamecon seems to include a kernel module that is not longer functioning/loading correctly. The module author(s) need to update it - otherwise the associated service(s) will not function correctly and fail, as you have noticed. Nothing that can be done on RetroPie's side, unfortunately.

Jod

@mitu ok, Thanks anyway. I also found this pr on github so it seems like they're working on it.

https://gitlab.com/recalbox/recalbox/-/merge_requests/1273/diffs

From the looks of it it seems to be an overlay for button press display. Like, for streamers.