Screensaver/sleep mode - how to exit without keyboard?

Sinistar83

I did a fresh install of RP 4.0 on Pi3 and updated all installed packages.

I am using a PS4 controller plugged in via USB and nothing else.

If I'm in any of the ES system/game select menus, and I don't touch controller for a few moments the screen dims, and then I can wake it by moving the joypad/stick/buttons. However if I'm in the any of the blue RetroPie Setup script boxes, and i don't touch the controller for a few moments the screen goes black and it will not wake the same way, I thought the system locked up at first, so I pulled the power plug then the next time it happened, I had a keyboard plugged in via USB, and I was able to only wake it by pressing the ESC key.
I checked in the settings and didn't see anything for screensaver/timeout options, so is this a bug?

BuZz

what is the output of cat /boot/cmdline.txt

Sinistar83

@BuZz said in Screensaver/sleep mode - how to exit without keyboard?:

what is the output of cat /boot/cmdline.txt

Thanks for the reply, how do I find that out? Tried typing in the console and I got a No such file or directory error

BuZz

@Sinistar83 oh. Are you using berryboot?

Sinistar83

@BuZz said in Screensaver/sleep mode - how to exit without keyboard?:

@Sinistar83 oh. Are you using berryboot?

Yep, I installed the retropie-4.0-rpi2_rpi3-berryboot.img256

BuZz

You can add consoleblank=0 to the berryboot kernel cmdline. In berryboot menu in advanced options. You can try the disable blanker option in Raspian tools from RetroPie-Setup first though but there was a bug in Raspian jessie that meant it didn't work. It may have been fixed.

Sinistar83

@BuZz said in Screensaver/sleep mode - how to exit without keyboard?:

You can add consoleblank=0 to the berryboot kernel cmdline. In berryboot menu in advanced options. You can try the disable blanker option in Raspian tools from RetroPie-Setup first though but there was a bug in Raspian jessie that meant it didn't work. It may have been fixed.

I tried the disable blanker option the other night, didn't seem to fix it. Then today I tried adding the consoleblank=0 to cmdline.tx as documented here http://www.berryterminal.com/doku.php/berryboot
Then I went to RetroPie Setup, I[date all Installed packages, and let it run for a bit. When I came back the screen was black and the PS4 conroller would not let me wake it. Had to plug in a USB keyboard to 'wake' the RP from that screen.

Any other suggestions I can try or is it a bug?

BuZz

it's not a retropie bug, but there is a bug in Raspbian in the kbd package . The consoleblank=0 should work - you might want to double check that was added correctly. you can also try setterm --blank 0 in /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh perhaps.

Sinistar83

@BuZz said in Screensaver/sleep mode - how to exit without keyboard?:

setterm --blank 0

About the consoleblank=0, I just add that on the next line below in cmdline.txt, right?
I tried adding the setterm --blank 0 in autostart.sh and it still did it, though this time I just stayed at the menu instead of updating all installed packages like it did before, after 5 minutes the screen blanks out and the controller no longer responds and I have to use the keyboard.