Alienware Alpha R2 stuck at flower screen

Libretro Lakka
#1

So… I just wanted to verify if i’m going to be able to use this thing or not. I have an older Alienware Alpha and it works fine but the GPU is different. May be due to the fact that this is a GTX 960. I don’t know.

Here’s my verbose output.

Lakka:~ # retroarch -v
[INFO] RetroArch 1.6.7 (Git 28397b3)
[INFO] === Build =======================================
Capabilities: MMX MMXEXT SSE1 SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE4 SSE4.2 AVX AES
Built: Oct 10 2017
[INFO] Version: 1.6.7
[INFO] Git: 28397b3
[INFO] =================================================
[INFO] [Config]: Loading default config.
[INFO] [Config]: loading config from: (null).
[INFO] Looking for config in: "/storage/.config/retroarch/retroarch.cfg".
[INFO] Environ SET_PIXEL_FORMAT: RGB565.
[INFO] Redirecting save file to "/storage/savefiles/.srm".
[INFO] Redirecting savestate to "/storage/savestates/.state".
[INFO] Version of libretro API: 1
[INFO] Compiled against API: 1
[INFO] [Audio]: Set audio input rate to: 29970.03 Hz.
[INFO] Found shader "/tmp/shaders/slang-conversion-template.glsl"
[INFO] Found shader "/tmp/shaders/stock.glsl"
[INFO] [Video]: Video @ fullscreen
[INFO] [Video]: Starting threaded video driver ...
[ERROR] [KMS]: Couldn't find a suitable DRM device.
[INFO] [GL]: Found GL context: null
[INFO] [GL]: Detecting screen resolution 320x240.
[INFO] [GL]: Vendor: (null), Renderer: (null).
[INFO] [GL]: Version: (null).
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

And here’s my output for my video card

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GM206 [GeForce GTX 960] [10de:1406] (rev a1)
        Subsystem: Dell GM206 [GeForce GTX 960] [1028:072b]
#2

As a fellow Alienware Alpha owner, I can tell you that your initial hunch about it being the graphics card is correct. The GTX960 is currently not compatible. The 860M is right now though (I have two Alienware Alphas, the i3 and i7 variants). However, the GTX960 is a newer card, and I’m curious, if you’re running Windows on it (and it’s a pretty good bet you are because you said “Alpha” and not “Steam Machine” which is Linux), you can just download Retroarch directly and run that on there until the Lakka team gets the GTX960 for them to add it to the compatibility database.

#3

Yeah. That’s exactly what I did for now. I just installed RetroArch and I’m playing that way. It also gives me the opportunity to use some other emulators not available through RetroArch like PCSX2.

I’m also thinking about installing something like Gopher360 so I can just control the whole thing with a controller. That was my original issue. I just didn’t want to have to use a keyboard and mouse.

#4

@Zerauskire : Thank you for the log. Is it possible to get also dmesg output ? I think we just forgot to reenable nvidia firmware. Maxwell graphic cards should work.

Update : we re-enabled it.

#5

Cool. Thanks for the update. I would test it out but I’ve never been able to successfully compile Lakka. I’m good for now though so i’ll just wait for a release.