Cannot get Rii K25 keyboard working in ScummVM

pfaux

Launching

/opt/retropie/emulators/scummvm/bin/scummvm --joystick=0

directly from the command line works as expected (keyboard works just fine).
One interesting thing though, after exiting the ScummVM UI back to the command prompt, I noticed that the following had been logged to the cli screen:

Virtual keyboard pack 'vkeybd_default' loaded successfully

So, it seems that a straight launch from the command line includes some special handling of the keyboard. Is there a way to view command line logs when launching something in Emulation Station, perhaps via an external SSH connection, or a logfile?

mitu

@pfaux said in Cannot get Rii K25 keyboard working in ScummVM:

Is there a way to view command line logs when launching something in Emulation Station, perhaps via an external SSH connection, or a logfile?

You can view it in /dev/shm/runcommand.log, this is where the launched emulators/ports will send their output.
Btw, there's nothing different between launching from command line or EmulationStation - EmulationStation just goes into the background and the launched emulator takes over.

pfaux

@mitu
I had some time to do some more poking and prodding at this, and it is truly bizarre.

When launching from emulation station, they keyboard does not work, and it logs :

Executing (via xinit): bash /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/scummvm/+Start ScummVM.sh monkey-vga

Virtual keyboard pack 'vkeybd_default' loaded successfully

When launching from the command line having exited emulationStation, the keyboard works, and it logs:

/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/scummvm/+Start\ ScummVM.sh monkey-vga
Virtual keyboard pack 'vkeybd_default' loaded successfully

I checked the /proc/bus/input/devices in both states and they were identical.

Oh well. I guess some things are destined to remain a mystery. For now I'll just have to play them from the command line. Thank you so much for your help and insight into tracking down the log files.

mitu

@pfaux said in Cannot get Rii K25 keyboard working in ScummVM:

Executing (via xinit): bash /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/scummvm/+Start ScummVM.sh monkey-vga

That's not the default launch command for ScummVM - via xorg. How exactly did you configure it ? Can you post your /opt/retropie/configs/scummvm/emulators.cfg ?

pfaux

Sure thing:

pi@retropie:~ $ cat /opt/retropie/configs/scummvm/emulators.cfg 
scummvm = "bash /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/scummvm/+Start\ ScummVM.sh %BASENAME%"
default = "scummvm"

In the above example I was launching The Secret of Monkey Island to test, hence the "monkey-vga" parameter at the end as the %BASENAME%.

mitu

The emulators.cfg seems ok - but your runcommand shows that xorg is used to launch ScummVM. Did you do any other configurations for scummvm from the default installation ?

pfaux

I made modifications to the ~/.config/scummvm/scummvm.ini file to change the graphics mode to super-eagle, and add some additional key-mappings (since the Rii remote lacks function keys).

Other than that, I don't recall any modifications to anything that would control how ScummVM launches.

I just tried reinstalling ScummVM and will see if that changes anything.

mitu

Can you post the /opt/retropie/configs/all/backends.cfg file from your installation ?

pfaux

Ah, this looks suspicious:

pi@retropie:~ $ cat /opt/retropie/configs/all/backends.cfg 
smw="dispmanx"
scummvm="x11-c"

mitu

Ok, so ScummVM is configured to run through x11/xorg - that's not a default configuration. Did you add the configuration yourself ? RetroPie doesn't configure it like this by default - it needs to be user choice.

pfaux

I don't recall adding that (it's possible I did something many months ago I don't remember), but I can remove it and make sure it works as expected.

mitu

@pfaux So, do you still have an issue if you remove the configuration of scummvm from backends.cfg ?

pfaux

@mitu That did the trick! The keyboard now works in ScummVM. Thank you for your insight and expertise!