Cannot get RetroPie to work on 7 inch GPIO screen (Error creating SDL window)
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Hello,
I recently got one of these WaveShare GPIO screens that I was hoping to use with my RPi4:
https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/7inch_LCD_for_PiIt works fine on Raspberry Pi OS (after adding the boot config lines in the wiki above), but unfortunately I have not been able to get it to work with RetroPie. I get display, and eventually end up in the terminal, with the following errors printed at the top of the screen:
lvl0: Error creating SDL window!
lvl0: Renderer failed to initialize!
lvl0: Window failed to initialize!
My guess is it's a display issue related to EmulationStation, but I have no idea how to go about this. Here's myconfig.txt
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https://pastebin.com/DAUgtnzsAny help is greatly appreciated!
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@jfaz1 said in Cannot get RetroPie to work on 7 inch GPIO screen (Error creating SDL window):
Here's my config.txt:
https://pastebin.com/DAUgtnzsYour configuration disables the GPU drivers for the Pi4:
[pi4] # Enable DRM VC4 V3D driver on top of the dispmanx display stack #dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d max_framebuffers=2 dpi_timings=1024 1 40 48 128 600 1 13 3 45 0 0 0 60 0 37000000 6
You need to enable the
vc4-fkms-v3d
overlay, otherwise RetroPie and its included programs will not work. -
@mitu that was crazy fast, thank you! Just uncommented it and it actually worked. I thought it was being overriden by the one in
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but I'm happy to be wrong.
Again, thank you!
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