After an update the front menu is like that, with unreadable text . I try to manually change the gui to xmb, but still can’t read nothing. I’m using the flatpak version.
Everything else is working fine. Any idea to solve it?
me pasa lo mismo tengo debian sid con el repo de deb multimedia
I’ve used Retroarch on android before (successfully) but this is my first time under Linux: Arch, specifically. Followed all instructions in https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/RetroArch and made sure all config files point to correct locations. I am on an old “trash-can” Mac…hardware is…
[malkor@woz ~]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 DMI2 (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 PCI Express Root Port 1a (rev 04)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 PCI Express Root Port 2a (rev 04)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 PCI Express Root Port 3a (rev 04)
00:04.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Crystal Beach DMA Channel 0 (rev 04)
00:04.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Crystal Beach DMA Channel 1 (rev 04)
00:04.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Crystal Beach DMA Channel 2 (rev 04)
00:04.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Crystal Beach DMA Channel 3 (rev 04)
00:04.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Crystal Beach DMA Channel 4 (rev 04)
00:04.5 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Crystal Beach DMA Channel 5 (rev 04)
00:04.6 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Crystal Beach DMA Channel 6 (rev 04)
00:04.7 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Crystal Beach DMA Channel 7 (rev 04)
00:05.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 VTd/Memory Map/Misc (rev 04)
00:05.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Memory Hotplug (rev 04)
00:05.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 IIO RAS (rev 04)
00:05.4 PIC: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 IOAPIC (rev 04)
00:11.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset PCI Express Virtual Root Port (rev 06)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset MEI Controller #1 (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset High Definition Audio Controller (rev 06)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev b6)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev b6)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev b6)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev b6)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 06)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset LPC Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation C600/X79 series chipset SMBus Host Controller (rev 06)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Tahiti XT [Radeon HD 7970/8970 OEM / R9 280X]
02:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Tahiti HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 7870 XT / 7950/7970]
06:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Tahiti XT [Radeon HD 7970/8970 OEM / R9 280X]
06:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Tahiti HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 7870 XT / 7950/7970]
0b:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM57762 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
0c:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM57762 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
0d:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 03)
0e:00.0 SATA controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Apple PCIe SSD (rev 01)
10:00.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. Device 8723 (rev ca)
11:01.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. Device 8723 (rev ca)
11:02.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. Device 8723 (rev ca)
11:08.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. Device 8723 (rev ca)
11:09.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. Device 8723 (rev ca)
11:0a.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. Device 8723 (rev ca)
12:00.0 USB controller: Fresco Logic FL1100 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 10)
14:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation DSL5520 Thunderbolt 2 Bridge [Falcon Ridge 4C 2013]
15:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation DSL5520 Thunderbolt 2 Bridge [Falcon Ridge 4C 2013]
15:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation DSL5520 Thunderbolt 2 Bridge [Falcon Ridge 4C 2013]
15:04.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation DSL5520 Thunderbolt 2 Bridge [Falcon Ridge 4C 2013]
15:05.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation DSL5520 Thunderbolt 2 Bridge [Falcon Ridge 4C 2013]
15:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation DSL5520 Thunderbolt 2 Bridge [Falcon Ridge 4C 2013]
16:00.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation DSL5520 Thunderbolt 2 NHI [Falcon Ridge 4C 2013]
5b:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation DSL5520 Thunderbolt 2 Bridge [Falcon Ridge 4C 2013]
5c:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation DSL5520 Thunderbolt 2 Bridge [Falcon Ridge 4C 2013]
5c:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation DSL5520 Thunderbolt 2 Bridge [Falcon Ridge 4C 2013]
5c:04.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation DSL5520 Thunderbolt 2 Bridge [Falcon Ridge 4C 2013]
5c:05.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation DSL5520 Thunderbolt 2 Bridge [Falcon Ridge 4C 2013]
5c:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation DSL5520 Thunderbolt 2 Bridge [Falcon Ridge 4C 2013]
5d:00.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation DSL5520 Thunderbolt 2 NHI [Falcon Ridge 4C 2013]
a2:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation DSL5520 Thunderbolt 2 Bridge [Falcon Ridge 4C 2013]
a3:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation DSL5520 Thunderbolt 2 Bridge [Falcon Ridge 4C 2013]
a3:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation DSL5520 Thunderbolt 2 Bridge [Falcon Ridge 4C 2013]
a3:04.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation DSL5520 Thunderbolt 2 Bridge [Falcon Ridge 4C 2013]
a3:05.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation DSL5520 Thunderbolt 2 Bridge [Falcon Ridge 4C 2013]
a3:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation DSL5520 Thunderbolt 2 Bridge [Falcon Ridge 4C 2013]
a4:00.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation DSL5520 Thunderbolt 2 NHI [Falcon Ridge 4C 2013]
ff:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 QPI Link 0 (rev 04)
ff:08.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 QPI Link Reut 0 (rev 04)
ff:08.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 QPI Link Reut 0 (rev 04)
ff:09.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 QPI Link 1 (rev 04)
ff:09.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 QPI Link 1 (rev 04)
ff:09.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 QPI Link Reut 1 (rev 04)
ff:0a.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Power Control Unit 0 (rev 04)
ff:0a.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Power Control Unit 1 (rev 04)
ff:0a.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Power Control Unit 2 (rev 04)
ff:0a.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Power Control Unit 3 (rev 04)
ff:0b.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 UBOX Registers (rev 04)
ff:0b.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 UBOX Registers (rev 04)
ff:0c.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Unicast Registers (rev 04)
ff:0c.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Unicast Registers (rev 04)
ff:0c.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Unicast Registers (rev 04)
ff:0c.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Unicast Registers (rev 04)
ff:0c.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Unicast Registers (rev 04)
ff:0d.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Unicast Registers (rev 04)
ff:0d.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Unicast Registers (rev 04)
ff:0d.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Unicast Registers (rev 04)
ff:0d.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Unicast Registers (rev 04)
ff:0d.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Unicast Registers (rev 04)
ff:0e.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Home Agent 0 (rev 04)
ff:0e.1 Performance counters: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Home Agent 0 (rev 04)
ff:0f.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 0 Target Address/Thermal
Registers (rev 04)
ff:0f.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 0 RAS Registers (rev 04)
ff:0f.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 0 Channel Target Address
Decoder Registers (rev 04)
ff:0f.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 0 Channel Target Address
Decoder Registers (rev 04)
ff:0f.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 0 Channel Target Address
Decoder Registers (rev 04)
ff:0f.5 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 0 Channel Target Address
Decoder Registers (rev 04)
ff:0f.6 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 DDRIO Registers (rev 04)
ff:10.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 1 Channel 0-3 Thermal Co
ntrol 0 (rev 04)
ff:10.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 1 Channel 0-3 Thermal Co
ntrol 1 (rev 04)
ff:10.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 1 Channel 0-3 ERROR Regi
sters 0 (rev 04)
ff:10.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 1 Channel 0-3 ERROR Regi
sters 1 (rev 04)
ff:10.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 1 Channel 0-3 Thermal Co
ntrol 2 (rev 04)
ff:10.5 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 1 Channel 0-3 Thermal Co
ntrol 3 (rev 04)
ff:10.6 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 1 Channel 0-3 ERROR Regi
sters 2 (rev 04)
ff:10.7 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Integrated Memory Controller 1 Channel 0-3 ERROR Regi
sters 3 (rev 04)
ff:11.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Device 0eb8 (rev 04)
ff:13.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 R2PCIe (rev 04)
ff:13.1 Performance counters: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 R2PCIe (rev 04)
ff:13.4 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 QPI Ring Registers (rev 04)
ff:13.5 Performance counters: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 QPI Ring Performance Ring Monitoring (rev 04)
ff:13.6 Performance counters: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 QPI Ring Performance Ring Monitoring (rev 04)
ff:16.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 System Address Decoder (rev 04)
ff:16.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Broadcast Registers (rev 04)
ff:16.2 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 v2/Core i7 Broadcast Registers (rev 04)
[malkor@woz ~]$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 05ac:828d Apple, Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp. BCM2046B1 USB 2.0 Hub (part of BCM2046 Bluetooth)
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c534 Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
[malkor@woz ~]$ lscpu
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Address sizes: 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 16
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-15
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
Model name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1680 v2 @ 3.00GHz
CPU family: 6
Model: 62
Thread(s) per core: 2
Core(s) per socket: 8
Socket(s): 1
Stepping: 4
CPU(s) scaling MHz: 40%
CPU max MHz: 3900.0000
CPU min MHz: 1200.0000
BogoMIPS: 6002.95
Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse s
se2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopolog
y nonstop_tsc cpuid aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm
pcid dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm cpuid_fault
epb pti ssbd ibrs ibpb stibp tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase smep erms xsaveopt dtherm i
da arat pln pts md_clear flush_l1d
Virtualization features:
Virtualization: VT-x
Caches (sum of all):
L1d: 256 KiB (8 instances)
L1i: 256 KiB (8 instances)
L2: 2 MiB (8 instances)
L3: 25 MiB (1 instance)
NUMA:
NUMA node(s): 1
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-15
Vulnerabilities:
Itlb multihit: KVM: Mitigation: VMX disabled
L1tf: Mitigation; PTE Inversion; VMX conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
Mds: Mitigation; Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Meltdown: Mitigation; PTI
Mmio stale data: Unknown: No mitigations
Retbleed: Not affected
Spec store bypass: Mitigation; Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
Spectre v1: Mitigation; usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Spectre v2: Mitigation; Retpolines, IBPB conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP conditional, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS Not affe
cted
Srbds: Not affected
Tsx async abort: Not affected
…and everything is fully updated: per pacman. With which version did this start happening?
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1.14.0 from flatpak. I already tried to change the assets folder and put the complete path at the retroarch.cfg and make an update, but nothing changed.
At least the desktop menu still working.
The OP image happens when you use a video driver that is not fully compatible with the menu. Which video driver are you using?
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I was using gl. I Change to vulkan and come back to normal.
Thanks.
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Also try “glcore”. “gl” is mostly useful for very old systems. “glcore” is the modern OpenGL driver.
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How do you change to the vulkun driver on Linux?
Open your retroarch.cfg in a text editor (for anything but a snap or flatpak, that’s going to be located at ~/.config/retroarch/retroarch.cfg) and search for “video_driver”. Change it from “gl” to “vulkan”
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Thank you for your response…So far, the only way I can install Retro Arch on this Linux Mint system is a snap or flatpak.
Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu so I think a PPA will work, that is provided I can find a PPA for Retro Arch. I’ll look for a App Image too. Maybe that will work?
Yeah, the PPA is good if it works for you. I maintain it and the snap package. Snap has a known issue where USB gamepads have to be unplugged/replugged after every game. It’s a real drag.
Appimage is also a really good option and an easy one to try. If it works, it should be essentially identical to the PPA or a self-compile. I would probably start with it, actually. By default, it comes with a portable home directory, with your retroarch.cfg inside, but if you want, you can delete that portable home directory and it will fall back to using your user’s home folder. Up to you.
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Thanks hunterk! I’m on my way now to find the PPA.
I think this is it: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libretro/stable
I found it on launchpad.net under archive/ubuntu/stable.
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After installing the PPA I edited the config file (retroarch.cfg) on the line that said video_driver = and changed it to “vulkan” like you advised. Saved the changes and rebooted.
Upon launching Retro Arch I have the unreadable text.
Not sure what is making the text to be unreadable? I’ll have to find out how to remove the PPA but I’ll wait before I remove it as you may know another way.
Is there a way hunterk to go back to an older version of the PPA? Will that work?
No way to go back to older version on the PPA, AFAIK. You should be able to remove it just by doing a normal apt purge and then remove the PPA from your sources.
HOWEVER! if it’s still giving you unreadable text, I’m gonna guess there’s something deeper amiss on your device/OS. In the meantime, you change your “menu_driver” to “rgui” (from the default “ozone”) and it should at least be usable while you/we figure out what’s going wrong.
Ok, got it now way to go back. I’ll try changing the menu_driver to “rgui” and see if that helps. After changing the menu_driver to rgui, saving the changes and rebooting no dice.
I think that my Linux Mint 21 installation is missing libraries or other packages that the API needs in order to display the text in Retro Arch. It could even be a GPU issue but I’m not sure as there are many things it could be. Thanks for all of your help.
If changing the menu to RGUI didn’t change the way it looks, it’s either pulling the config from somewhere else or you’re still loading some other RetroArch. That is, the RGUI menu should look very different:
That makes sense. I’ll use dpkg -L to see if Retro Arch is installed in more than one place. I don’t think it is but I will check. IF it is pulling the config from somewhere else I’m not sure where that could be. I’ll boot into LM and look in a few minutes.
Could having Retro Arch installed on LM via the Nvme drive creating a possible issue? Picture of the API included.
My suspicion is that one of the universal packages (snap or flatpak) has hijacked however you’re launching (are you launching from a CLI or by clicking a menu icon?), so it’s using its own internal config from wherever it stores it.
I’m launching from the Main Start Menu, not the command-line.
I’ll try using the find or locate command to see if there are other retroarch.cfg files and look in the bin directory too.
For now there is only one that I could find in the root directory /etc/retroarch.cfg.
Otherwise, I’m not sure how to find a flatpak universal pkg that hangaround and where it’s using the internal config. I won’t give up so easily. 