RetroArch no drivers seen

Bobrow · 8 April 2018 11:22

When I go on retroarch it does not boot and when I run it through terminal using “-v” is shows this:

[INFO] RetroArch 1.7.2 (Git 28b9a38)
[INFO] === Build =======================================
Capabilities: MMX MMXEXT SSE1 SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 
Built: Mar 31 2018
[INFO] Version: 1.7.2
[INFO] Git: 28b9a38
[INFO] =================================================
[ERROR] Couldn't find any audio driver named "pulse"
[INFO] Available audio drivers are:
[INFO] 	tinyalsa
[INFO] 	oss
[INFO] 	jack
[INFO] 	null
[WARN] Going to default to first audio driver...
[ERROR] Couldn't find any video driver named "vulkan"
[INFO] Available video drivers are:
[INFO] 	null
[WARN] Going to default to first video driver...
[ERROR] Couldn't find any input driver named "x"
[INFO] Available input drivers are:
[INFO] 	linuxraw
[INFO] 	null
[WARN] Going to default to first input driver...
[ERROR] Couldn't find any camera driver named "video4linux2"
[INFO] Available camera drivers are:
[INFO] 	null
[WARN] Going to default to first camera driver...
[WARN] Couldn't find any menu driver named "xmb"
[INFO] Available menu drivers are:
[INFO] 	rgui
[INFO] 	null
[WARN] Going to default to first menu driver...
[INFO] Environ SET_PIXEL_FORMAT: RGB565.
[INFO] Version of libretro API: 1
[INFO] Compiled against API: 1
[INFO] [Audio]: Set audio input rate to: 29970.03 Hz.
[INFO] [Video]: Video @ 960x720
[ERROR] Couldn't find any video driver named "vulkan"
[INFO] Available video drivers are:
[INFO] 	null
[WARN] Going to default to first video driver...
[ERROR] Using the null video driver. RetroArch will not be visible.[INFO] [Video]: Graphics driver did not initialize an input driver. Attempting to pick a suitable driver.
[ERROR] [Video]: Cannot initialize input driver. Exiting ...
[ERROR] Fatal error received in: "video_driver_init_input()"
[ERROR] This core requires a content file, could not load content.

I am using elementary os (basically ubuntu) I am also using the proprietary nvidia drivers I have also tried using the windows version through wine and compiled from source code

SPECS: Dual-Core Intel® Atom™ CPU 330 @ 1.60GHz NVIDIA Corporation ION VGA (rev b1) 1.8 GB memory 313.1 GB storage

hunterk · 2 April 2018 12:58

It’s not finding any video drivers, which is a pretty significant problem.

How did you install it? self-compiled?

Bobrow · 2 April 2018 18:25

I did it through both, using the source code and apt-get but both had the same error, I also tried both as root

hunterk · 2 April 2018 18:37

can you get me the output of 2 commands?

glxinfo | grep renderer

and

retroarch --features

Bobrow · 8 April 2018 11:23

For the first one it shows:

OpenGL renderer string: ION/integrated/SSE2

and for retroarch --features it shows:

   Features:
  LibretroDB:
		LibretroDB support: yes
  Command:
		Command interface support: yes
  Network Command:
		Network Command interface support: yes
  SDL:
		SDL input/audio/video drivers: no
  SDL2:
		SDL2 input/audio/video drivers: no
  X11:
		X11 input/video drivers: no
  wayland:
		Wayland input/video drivers: no
  Threads:
		Threading support: yes
  Vulkan:
		Vulkan video driver: no
  OpenGL:
		OpenGL   video driver support: no
  OpenGL ES:
		OpenGLES video driver support: no
  XVideo:
		Video driver: no
  UDEV:
		UDEV/EVDEV input driver support: no
  EGL:
		Video context driver: no
  KMS:
		Video context driver: no
  OpenVG:
		Video context driver: no
  CoreAudio:
		Audio driver: no
  ALSA:
		Audio driver: no
  OSS:
		Audio driver: yes
  Jack:
		Audio driver: yes
  RSound:
		Audio driver: no
  RoarAudio:
		Audio driver: no
  PulseAudio:
		Audio driver: no
  DirectSound:
		Audio driver: no
  WASAPI:
		Audio driver: no
  XAudio2:
		Audio driver: no
  OpenAL:
		Audio driver: no
  OpenSL:
		Audio driver: no
  7zip:
		7zip extraction support: yes
  zlib:
		.zip extraction support: yes
  External:
		External filter and plugin support: yes
  Cg:
		Fragment/vertex shader driver: no
  GLSL:
		Fragment/vertex shader driver: no
  HLSL:
		Fragment/vertex shader driver: no
  libxml2:
		libxml2 XML parsing: yes
  SDL_image:
		SDL_image image loading: no
  rpng:
		PNG image loading/encoding: yes
  rjpeg:
		JPEG image loading: yes
  Dynamic:
		Dynamic run-time loading of libretro library: yes
  FFmpeg:
		On-the-fly recording of gameplay with libavcodec: no
  FreeType:
		TTF font rendering driver: yes
  CoreText:
		TTF font rendering driver (for OSX and/or iOS): no
  Netplay:
		Peer-to-peer netplay: yes
  Python:
		Script support in shaders: no
  Libusb:
		Libusb support: no
  Cocoa:
		Cocoa UI companion support (for OSX and/or iOS): no
  Qt:
		Qt UI companion support: no
  AVFoundation:
		Camera driver: no
  Video4Linux2:
		Camera driver: no

hunterk · 2 April 2018 18:48

ok, it looks like for whatever reason pretty much nothing got compiled into that build

I would suggest checking out one of the universal packages, like flatpak or snap, which should have all of the dependencies compiled in and included.

Bobrow · 2 April 2018 18:50

This might sound dumb but what do you mean?

wertz · 2 April 2018 19:00

you seem to be rying to use Vulkan driver which Nvidia ION does not support… if you do have vulkan support, typing “vulkaninfo”(or similar tool) in terminal should show.

hunterk · 2 April 2018 18:58

https://www.libretro.com/index.php/retroarch-with-flatpak/

https://www.libretro.com/index.php/retroarch-snap-packages-now-available/

You can also try following the compilation guide here: https://docs.libretro.com/compilation/linux-and-bsd/

There’s a section that lists all of the dependencies for debian-based distros.

And yeah, you aren’t going to be able to use Vulkan, but I think that might just be a weird spurious message that’s coming up because there are no video drivers compiled in.

Bobrow · 2 April 2018 19:11

thank you, it is just installing I will keep you updated

Bobrow · 2 April 2018 19:19

It has installed

but it now throws out this error

libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
 X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
 Major opcode of failed request:  154 (GLX)
 Minor opcode of failed request:  24 (X_GLXCreateNewContext)
 Value in failed request:  0x0
 Serial number of failed request:  44
 Current serial number in output stream:  45

hunterk · 2 April 2018 19:46

well, shucks. That seems to suggested that it’s trying to use the software rasterizer, but it can’t even load that successfully.

Bobrow · 2 April 2018 19:57

what should i do if that is true?

hunterk · 2 April 2018 20:04

You can try editing the retroarch.cfg (for snap packages, it’s in ~/snap/retroarch/current/.config/retroarch, IIRC) to change the menu_driver from “xmb” to “rgui”, which shouldn’t need GL. You’re probably going to want some sort of hardware acceleration, though.

Bobrow · 2 April 2018 20:15

I tried the snap version and it worked. but i will try that

hunterk · 2 April 2018 20:15

eyy, if the snap version worked don’t bother. Just go with it

DoctorFunkenstein · 9 April 2018 00:04

What video driver should be used with Linux Mint?

hunterk · 9 April 2018 00:05

Usually GL, but if your GPU supports Vulkan, that should be good, too.