Compete noob needs help
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Hello, recently tried setting up my new raspberry pi 3 and downloaded retropie 4.1. It booted to controller conduit and configured buttons. All good so far.
Downloaded some roms and rebooted pi.
Now... I can't seem to do anything.
It boots to command line and startx doesn't work. I can't get onto anything resembling the main retropie gui. Tried installing lightdm to boot to gui but no luck.
Please help guys. I'm an absolute noob at Linux and Google isn't helping me.
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I have read, still stuck
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@jimmynoon Really? why have you not posted the form filled out as asked? It clearly lists what you must post to help users help you. You haven't posted the required info. Please read it again and follow it otherwise it's guesswork.
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I've told you all I know. Raspi 3 and retropie 4.1 from the main website. The rest I literally don't understand. I tried running emulatorstation bit says I don't have it or something
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@jimmynoon
You have not provided the required information that has been asked for. It starts by the title of your post. It's not informative. It will not help users who have the same issues as you when searching. You could write "Boot issues". When you read the instructions starting with the "read this first" you would see what info is needed. Did you download the correct image? No idea because you don't name it exactly. You mention roms, which? What emulator? Where have you placed them? Did you try to use the USB service? Is it booting at all? Do you have the correct 2.5A power supply? Are you incorrectly using a phone charger? Are you trying to power it from a tv USB by mistake? I could speculate all day but you are not helping yourself. Have you followed the setup instructions exactly? An image boots directly into Emulationstation. If not check supply, card, image. Good luck. -
It boots, I'm using my computers USB 3.0 to power. I used the image from retropie.org.uk. It doesn't boot to emulator station, it doesn't seem to recognise emulator station.
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@jimmynoon you can't power the RPI3 from a USB port. You need a proper PSU.
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Ok, but that's not the issue here. It powered on and worked.
Forget it, I've formated card and starting again from scratch
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@jimmynoon how many raspberries at the top left when booting?
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@jimmynoon @rbaker Did say you need a dedicated psu in his post, but you seem to have ignored him. Regardless of if it boots like that or not, there won't be enough power pulled through a pc usb port and you'll get odd issues like this.
We're here to assist and won't suggest things like this for no reason.
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@jimmynoon said in Compete noob needs help:
Ok, but that's not the issue here. It powered on and worked.
Forget it, I've formated card and starting again from scratch
It is the issue. A USB port cannot supply 2.5A. Your issues are not related to retropie. Your issues are related to not reading the instructions for the raspberry pi before not reading the instructions for retropie. Also, you still have not said which image you are using exactly despite being asked over and over.
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@rbaker https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/manual-installation
I'm using these instructions, and the image from retropie website.
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I've got the power supply plugged in, done another full re-install, tried running emulationstation and nothing happens. Shock, nothing to do with the power supply. Updating retropie now, but I'm close to throwing this out the window. I AM FOLLOWING THE INSTRUCTIONS to the god damn letter and it aint working.
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@BuZz 4, thanks
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@jimmynoon try another sdcard. Ranting as above is not going to help. (And will not aid in people wanting to help you).
It could have been power related. We have seen it many times. You can't reliably power a rpi3 from a USB port.
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@jimmynoon you still have not posted which retropie image you downloaded. How many times do you want me to ask? If you try and boot a pi3 with the image for a pi1/0 it won't work. Are you using the correct one? Is your sd card on the compatible list?
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https://retropie.org.uk/download/ - I used the second image from this website. Extracted with WinRAR and burned to SD card with Win32DiskImager. I did say I used this website.
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And it can't be the SDcard as surely bugger all would happen if the SD card was faulty. I go through the install but then I can't seem to get anything to run post retropie install.
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Sorry if I am ranting but this is highly frustrating when I know deep down it's something I'm missing in terms of my lack of linux knowledge, not hardware issues.
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