screen_orientation in retroarch.cfg doesn't seem to work

chuck_pierce

Has anyone been able to get the screen_orientation option in /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg to work on a raspberry pi 4?

The video_rotation works like a champ (so my games play in the correct orientation), but the retroarch menu doesn't seem to be able to rotate. I've got a cocktail style machine and have the screen rotated 90 deg. I've tried values 1, 2, 3, and 4 with no changes to the retroarch menu.

I have also tried rotating the OS screen by editing the /boot/cmdline.txt file and adding the kernel video parameters of video=HDMI-A-1:1600x1200@60,rotate=270. While this does rotate the OS screen, it doesn't seem to affect the retroarch menu at all.

I have thought about manually updating retroarch to version 1.9 (the current stable version) to see if that works, but before going down that rabbit hole, I figured I would ask the group here first :)

Here's my specs:

Pi Model: 4
RetroPie Version: 4.7.7
Retroarch Version: 1.8.8
Built From: Pre made SD Image on RetroPie website

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

mitu

screen_orientation is not implemented for all video drivers, on Linux in particular I think it's only implemented for the X11 video driver - so it's not going to work on a Pi.

dankcushions

@chuck_pierce said in screen_orientation in retroarch.cfg doesn't seem to work:

The video_rotation works like a champ (so my games play in the correct orientation), but the retroarch menu doesn't seem to be able to rotate. I've got a cocktail style machine and have the screen rotated 90 deg. I've tried values 1, 2, 3, and 4 with no changes to the retroarch menu.

that's right. this function is intended to rotate the GAME, not the whole session. it is working as intended. it looks like there's an outstanding issue to rotate the whole lot outside of X, that you could follow here: https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues/6770

unfortunately the ability to rotate the entire session outside of X does not exist for pi4, as far as i know.