The issue is just for menu improvements, everything will work fine without the addition of these but it will be worth having them once available. Are you able to edit the retroarch.cfg within lakka terminal?
So does Lakka OS PC version currently include x11?
Cheers
Yes you can edit retroarch.cfg within lakka terminal.
Lakka is based on LibreElec which include x11 but it is not enabled on Lakka.
Is it simple to enable? I did try to build generic Lakka with X11SERVER=yes. However, this did not work. Is there an option to enable x11 now? is it a simple compile argument? or is it something we’ll have to wait for?
If it is a compile argument for PC. I could host the CRT switchres Lakka for download if its simpler?
If you need more info or help if you get around to enabling x11 for RPi give me a shout.
Cheers
You should at least enable X11 for RPi/RPi2 projects then remove --disable-x11 parameter and add --enable-x11 to make a test.
–disable-x11 parameter and add --enable-x11
I assume this will be within your build scripts for lakka? Could you point me in the right direction. Or are you just talking general Retroarch compiles?
OK, cool. I will give this a try.
Will this also work for Generic PC? Or are there any other parameters for compiling x11server?
Cheers man, hopefully I’ll have some good test builds soon.
@gouchi I have not tried RPi yet. However, I did try generic PC. When disabling KMS and enabling x11, lakka just hangs at the logo screen. My guess is that it’s conually trying to load Retroarch but keeps failing because x11 is not enabled within the OS?
What is needed to load x11 with the lakka OS for generic PC?
You adapted the configuration for the Generic platform ? Enable X11 and RetroArch ?
If needed there is a documentation about accessing Lakka command line interface.
I edited the Retroarch package.mk. I didn’t know about the changes for x11. I will try them now.
Cheers again
Hey @gouchi
I’m have quite a few compile errors, many I’ve been able to get around. However, I keep getting errors.
What is the best compile OS/environment to get this compiled on?
I did have a compile a while back but I removed it. To the fresh new source, oopps!
We usually compile it on Ubuntu 16.04 but other Linux distro should be fine.
I found out my issue. I was trying to compile the depreciated Lakka source oops.
This is my current error.
make[1]: Leaving directory ‘/mnt/8c026599-057d-4201-8616-ab6cbff6593e/lka/build.Lakka-Generic.x86_64-2.1-devel/xf86-video-intel-028c946/.x86_64-libreelec-linux-gnu’ xf86-video-nouveau: no package.mk file found Makefile:27: recipe for target ‘image’ failed make: *** [image] Error 1
The folder and package.mk do not exist. any ideas?
Yes, indeed xf86-video-nouveau package does not exist. So we have to create one or use nvidia driver by replacing nouveau by nvidia in Lakka options for i386 and x86_64.
@vudiq made some X11 enabled build for testing currently for x86_64.
If needed the commit.
Please let us know if everything is working correctly.
Thank you.
Ok so my finding so far are not good news.
I have tested with my modifications first. Lakka boots, you see the boot image but then you just see a black screen. It has not crash, when you press the power button the lakka logo flash up and the PC turns off.
I downloaded the pre built IMG from the link you posted and I get exactly the same problem.
I’ve tested with 3rd gen Intel, ati HD series and nvideo GT series GPUs. All have the same outcome. So I’m not sure if I am missing something or weather currently the x11 driver only supports specific GPUs. Maybe Retroarch is not initializing the display server correctly.
Any Ideas? Or would it be better if I speak with @vudiq.
Hi,
Yes indeed it seems RA got a segfault when booting. The time we fixed the issue please boot with live ssh if you have ethernet link then connect to your station then stop and relaunch RA with systemctl stop retroarch and retroarch --menu --verbose to get some direct output log.
Thank you.
Ok so finally some good news, kind of.
So the findings are that Retroarch is stuck in a boot cycle where it’s failing to load. However, when I run the commands to force exit Retroarch then manually relaunch it, it loads fine!
Also CRT swithres does work with some odd issues. This is probably related to the x11 setup and configuration.
I’ve read through the verbose output and everything seems fine. The is the same for my img and @vudiq s img too. There are no errors of any kind! (failed to load nothing)
I will get a video uploaded soon and I’ll post the verbose output too.
So the question is, why when you launch Retroarch manually does it load? But it will.not load on Lakka boot?
Is it possible to boot Lakka in verbose mode?
@gouchi Here is the verbose output
For some reason it posted half at the top. So ignore that and read down from line 74
Thank you for the log.
You can try to boot with live debugging which will show some output.
You can check also the log with journalctl | grep retroarch
We may have to change a little retroarch.service like l.3 with xorg.service or xorg.target instead of graphical.target. Same for l.5.