emulationstation fails to launch

mitu

@johnston Thanks for the follow-up, let's hope this will fix similar issues in the future.

darkblaster77

@mitu

I am having this similar issue. Wondering if there is way to run EmulationStation with Nvidia proprietary driver.

mitu

@darkblaster77 Have you tried the solution from this topic ?

darkblaster77

@mitu

I am not mistaken, the solution is for AMD graphic card.

My setup is as follows
Processor: Intel Core2Duo T6600
RAM: 4GB
Graphic: Nvidia GeForce G105M
O/S: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
RetroPie Version: 4.7.11

My current workaround is to use the Nouveau display driver.

mitu

@darkblaster77 said in emulationstation fails to launch:

I am not mistaken, the solution is for AMD graphic card.

Nobody said it's just for AMD cards. Try installing the -dev package and see if it works.

darkblaster77

@mitu
Tried running on emulationstation-dev. It is still not working for me.

mitu

@darkblaster77 said in emulationstation fails to launch:

Tried running on emulationstation-dev. It is still not working for me.

Run EmulationStation with the --debug parameter, then get the log from $HOME/.emulationstation/es_log.txt and post it on pastebin.com.

darkblaster77

@mitu

Please see the es_log.txt at the link below
https://pastebin.com/6MrtX2AN

Not sure if it is useful. It displays the following errors.

Mar 17 21:45:13 lvl2: 	EmulationStation - v2.10.0rp-dev, built Mar 17 2021 - 21:35:43
Mar 17 21:45:13 lvl2: 	Parsing XML file "/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation-dev/resources/mamenames.xml"...
Mar 17 21:45:13 lvl2: 	Parsing XML file "/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation-dev/resources/mamebioses.xml"...
Mar 17 21:45:13 lvl2: 	Parsing XML file "/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulationstation-dev/resources/mamedevices.xml"...
Mar 17 21:45:13 lvl2: 	Creating window...
X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  152 (GLX)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  3 (X_GLXCreateContext)
  Value in failed request:  0x0
  Serial number of failed request:  87
  Current serial number in output stream:  88

mitu

@darkblaster77 said in emulationstation fails to launch:

   X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
   Major opcode of failed request:  152 (GLX)
   Minor opcode of failed request:  3 (X_GLXCreateContext)

This looks like a failure to create an OpenGL context. Do you have accelerated OpenGL working ? Run glxinfo and post the output on pastebin.com also.

darkblaster77

@mitu

The output is as follows
https://pastebin.com/YMRS6d94

mitu

@darkblaster77 said in emulationstation fails to launch:

The output is as follows
https://pastebin.com/YMRS6d94

This shows an error - there's no OpenGL support. I think your NVIDIA driver installation is broken - it's not an EmulationStation issue.

darkblaster77

@mitu
Thanks for the help.

After some reading up, found that the Nvidia driver 340.108 has already EOL.
Last supported was for Kernel version 5.4.

Perhaps this is the reason why the driver is not running well in the latest Ubuntu.