Orange Pi 5

mitu

However, on my new 4K smart TV (LG OLED77CXPUA), EmulationStation crashes after I exit emulation of a game (regardless of system). Error message is the standard "Emulation Station Crashed! If this is your first..."

The real error is in $HOME/.emulationstation/es_log.txt, maybe try opening the file and see what's the last logged message.

Anyone else been having a similar issue?

HDMI on the OrangePi 5 is hit-or-miss, I wouldn't be surprised if it's caused by it. Or maybe caused by the Wayland support in the SDL version that's bundled with the distro ?

RedMarsBlueMoon

@jlegenzo

For me sometimes a monitor would work with USB-C when HDMI didn't and vice versa.
But its been a while since I tinkered with this so might be out of date and I was testing with experimental kernel builds sometimes.

I also read this morning,

"Orange Pi has the option "NoEDID" "true" for X11 which you could try"

https://github.com/orangepi-xunlong/orangepi-build/blob/next/external/packages/bsp/rk3588/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-modesetting.conf

jlegenzo

@mitu

I checked the error log and only one things was marked error:
"Error - folder with path "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/amstra>"

Since it seemed like an easy fix, I made a folder with that name in my roms directory and restarted. The issue seems to have been resolved because I can exit games without crashing. Seems strange that a missing folder would only cause a crash for certain TVs, but I'm glad it works.

@RedMarsBlueMoon

Thanks for the suggestions

Full error log:
Oct 15 13:11:01 lvl2: EmulationStation - v2.11.2rp, built Aug 17 2023 - 14:45>
Oct 15 13:11:01 lvl2: Parsing XML file "/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulation>
Oct 15 13:11:01 lvl2: Parsing XML file "/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulation>
Oct 15 13:11:01 lvl2: Parsing XML file "/opt/retropie/supplementary/emulation>
Oct 15 13:11:01 lvl2: Creating window...
Oct 15 13:11:02 lvl2: Created window successfully.
Oct 15 13:11:02 lvl2: GL vendor: Panfrost
Oct 15 13:11:02 lvl2: GL renderer: Mali-G610 (Panfrost)
Oct 15 13:11:02 lvl2: GL version: OpenGL ES 3.1 Mesa 23.0.0-devel
Oct 15 13:11:02 lvl2: Checking available OpenGL extensions...
Oct 15 13:11:02 lvl2: ARB_texture_non_power_of_two: MISSING
Oct 15 13:11:03 lvl2: Loading system config file /etc/emulationstation/es_sys>
Oct 15 13:11:03 lvl1: Error - folder with path "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/amstra>
Oct 15 13:11:03 lvl1: System "amstradcpc" has no games! Ignoring it.
Oct 15 13:11:03 lvl1: System "arcade" has no games! Ignoring it.
Oct 15 13:11:03 lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/>
Oct 15 13:11:03 lvl1: System "atari5200" has no games! Ignoring it.
Oct 15 13:11:03 lvl2: Parsing XML file "/home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/>
Oct 15 13:11:03 lvl1: System "atari800" has no games! Ignoring it.
Oct 15 13:11:03 lvl1: System "atarilynx" has no games! Ignoring it.

e-zero

Has anyone had success with the Orange Pi 5b and connecting multiple Bluetooth controllers?

dotcom6

@DarklyAdonic which script did you use?

e-zero

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e-zero

So this is my status with the bluetooth controllers (I have an OrangePi5b using Ubuntu Jammy Server 22.04 from OrangePi site, and RetroPie)

If I try to setup bluetooth via the retropie_setup.sh script, pairing the controllers works, but the pairing doesn't stick after orangepi boot.

If I use bluetoothctl via the terminal, it's the same thing (i.e., pairing works but can't get it to stick on bootup).

Any ideas how to get pairing working during boot up?

snakos47

@e-zero You could use a crontab job to run the script / command at reboot (under root user type "crontab -e" to edit crontab):
@reboot sleep 60 && /path/to/script.sh

pp7

@DarklyAdonic Can you share this installation script? And or instructions. It is no longer on the OrangePi website. I'm having a hell of a time getting retropie to work on the OrangePi 5 PLUS 32gb model. Thanks!

RedMarsBlueMoon

Much improved Dolphin experience with the kernel 6.10 panthor driver + new mesa.

Notes from info box under video:

This disk image was,

Armbian_24.8.1_Orangepi5_noble_current_6.10.6_gnome-kisak_desktop.img.xz

from,
https://www.armbian.com/orangepi-5/

Dolphin compiled from source following instructions for 'Linux Local Build Steps'
https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin

I wanted to use Wayland for this test but it didn't work with Qt6 in this configuration it seemed.
Might not make a big difference though.
Also I would have like to play full in screen mode from desktop and cli but that didn't work for me either. Cheers!

mitu

@RedMarsBlueMoon said in Orange Pi 5:

Much improved Dolphin experience with the kernel 6.10 panthor driver + new mesa.
[...]
Armbian_24.8.1_Orangepi5_noble_vendor_6.1.75_gnome-kisak_desktop.img.xz

So, which one is it ? The link on the download page for the image mentions kernel 6.1, while the Panthor (Linux kernel/Mesa) driver was added - indeed - in 6.10.

AFAIK, while the new drivers are a welcomed addition for open source and overall better Linux support, the HDMI output is still missing the audio support, so you won't get audio to your TV with the new driver.

RedMarsBlueMoon

@mitu

Sorry just realised I pasted the wrong filename. It should be
Armbian_24.8.1_Orangepi5_noble_current_6.10.6_gnome-kisak_desktop.img.xz
(updated above.)

Basically the 6.10 kernel, Ubuntu based, Gnome I think it was. And has mesa pre-installed.
The Mesa is from some forked repo but seems to work. Not sure why they use that. Mesa needs to be of a certain version for Panthor, don't remember exactly which.

Iv'e added some more notes on the youtube info box.
For example,

You'll still need to add to your,
~/.config/dolphin-emu/GFX.ini
a line
PreferGLES = True

and

If you get an error when trying to run a game try first running in the term,
export WAYLAND_DISPLAY=""
to revert the environment to xwayland. (or something like that)

Alternatively use the -nogui version. That doesn't complain about wayland in qt6.

Ahh.. regarding Audio. I got audio in my desk speakers by running a dongle I use for my sons headphones. It plugs into USB and gives me a 3.5mm jack I can plug into the desk speakers. Don't test using the Ubuntu Settings->Audio 'Test' thingy as that seemed broken.
I also got sound by plugging the headphones into the jack of my PS5 controller and using that to play with. But something was a bit janky with glitchy on/off input for some reason so I ended up swapping to an xbox controller I had.