RetroELEC Kodi+Wayland+Emulationstation+RetroArch (x86/XU4/RPi)

jaykass · January 26, 2020 at 5:46 AM

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jaykass

Regarding multiple key presses, did you try disabling lirc (seem to remember that was a solution in a thread with similar issue)? Can't say I have much experience with remotes. My lirc and eventlircd package is now in sync with LE 9.2, not sure I can be of further help regarding that.

I figured this out.

Your build is missing some standard LE udev rules for some reason. I note the specific issue below but you may wish to review why others are also missing.

In my case "/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/70-input-repeat.rules" fixes this issue.

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ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="input", KERNEL=="event[0-9]*", GOTO="start"
GOTO="end"
LABEL="start"

# don't change eventlircd device settings
ATTRS{name}=="eventlircd", GOTO="end"

# don't change settings of rc remotes
SUBSYSTEMS=="rc", GOTO="end"

# set default repeat delay to 500ms like rc remotes
RUN+="/usr/bin/ir-keytable --delay=500 --device=$devnode"

# make lircd-uinput use same repeat period like keyboards in kodi
ATTRS{name}=="lircd-uinput", \
  RUN+="/usr/bin/ir-keytable --period=80 --device=$devnode"

LABEL="end"

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To verify the fix, I copied the file from Vanilla LE to your build in "/storage/.config/udev.rules.d/70-input-repeat.rules"

This will work as a temp resolution for me until it gets included properly in "/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/"

Here are all the rules found in Vanilla LE but not in your build:

70-infrared.rules

70-input-repeat.rules

90-libinput-model-quirks.rules

96-e2scrub.rules

98-eventlircd.rules

Liquidmercury · January 26, 2020 at 11:41 AM

Ended up getting Saturn to work, I think I had my bios file named wrong but are there any tweaks I can make to the system settings to get it to run smoother? Leads me to believe that my bios files for ps2 are incorrect so I’ll keep trying there unless I’m missing something obvious, hell maybe soon I’ll upgrade my system and just be on a tight-ish budget

**escalade** · January 26, 2020 at 1:39 PM

jaykass

Found the issue, I had set REMOTE_SUPPORT=no in my options file

96-e2scrub.rules is nowhere to be found in LE though. Not needed as my images use F2FS anyways.

Liquidmercury

Beetle-saturn is heavy, not much you can do except maybe enabling threading or frame skipping in the core (which has other negative consequences). Perhaps you could give the kronos core a try (not included in my build), it's an x86 version of yabasanshiro which should be lighter.

**escalade** · January 26, 2020 at 4:18 PM

jaykass

New RPi4 build uploaded, clean rebuild with all the mentioned fixes. Also latest Mesa and 5.5 kernel. Let me know how it works works out.

Marciano · January 26, 2020 at 6:56 PM

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jaykass

New RPi4 build uploaded, clean rebuild with all the mentioned fixes. Also latest Mesa and 5.5 kernel. Let me know how it works works out.

Can anyone confirm if the screentearing in menus’s is fixed in the rpi4 build?

Which emulators are working on the rpi4?

**escalade** · January 26, 2020 at 7:11 PM

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Can anyone confirm if the screentearing in menus’s is fixed in the rpi4 build?

Which emulators are working on the rpi4?

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desmume_libretro.so
dosbox_svn_libretro.so
fbneo_libretro.so
flycast_libretro.so
fuse_libretro.so
genesis_plus_gx_libretro.so
mame2003_plus_libretro.so
mame2016_libretro.so
mgba_libretro.so
mupen64plus_next_libretro.so
pcsx_rearmed_libretro.so
puae_libretro.so
quicknes_libretro.so
scummvm_libretro.so
snes9x_libretro.so
vice_x64_libretro.so
yabasanshiro_libretro.so

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Marciano · January 26, 2020 at 7:15 PM

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desmume_libretro.so
dosbox_svn_libretro.so
fbneo_libretro.so
flycast_libretro.so
fuse_libretro.so
genesis_plus_gx_libretro.so
mame2003_plus_libretro.so
mame2016_libretro.so
mgba_libretro.so
mupen64plus_next_libretro.so
pcsx_rearmed_libretro.so
puae_libretro.so
quicknes_libretro.so
scummvm_libretro.so
snes9x_libretro.so
vice_x64_libretro.so
yabasanshiro_libretro.so

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thanks!

jaykass · January 26, 2020 at 8:08 PM

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Can anyone confirm if the screentearing in menus’s is fixed in the rpi4 build?

Screen tearing still seems to be a minor problem in Kodi, this is also the case in the latest stable vanilla LE build (9.2).

**escalade** · January 26, 2020 at 8:18 PM

Marciano

Note that those are just the ones I'm including in the image at this time, I focus on those that are most used/popular and are well maintained i.e. updated now and then.

jaykass · January 26, 2020 at 8:23 PM

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Screen tearing still seems to be a minor problem in Kodi, this is also the case in the latest stable vanilla LE build (9.2).

I just took another look and I think the tearing may be resolved by escalade.

escalade I recommend if someone is connecting a Pi4 to a 4K TV that they force the display into 1080p60Hz otherwise it feels a bit laggy in the various interfaces. Once I switched to 1080p, it all seems to be running buttery smooth!

I added the following to my /flash/config.txt:

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hdmi_group=1
hdmi_mode=16

I'm not sure if it is something that makes sense to have as a default or not for Pi4 builds but I can't imagine anyone would want to run this at 4K based on performance.

Liquidmercury · January 28, 2020 at 12:35 PM

Just want to see if its possible with the wii emulator to pair a wii mote with retro arch to kinda kick the tires really thinking about using some tax refund money to get a proper emulation machine and new kodi box to boot, I was able to get it it pair with dolphin on the other build with dolphin as a stand alone but via retro arch nothing so far right now im trying to figure out what works and what dosent on the hardware i have, before i make a move.

Liquidmercury · January 28, 2020 at 1:15 PM

pcsx2 log

Liquidmercury · January 28, 2020 at 3:37 PM

tried installing the latest generic build it appears to be uploaded this morning but it gives a kernel panic not syncing

mtk1 · January 28, 2020 at 7:25 PM

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tried installing the latest generic build it appears to be uploaded this morning but it gives a kernel panic not syncing

same here.

**escalade** · January 28, 2020 at 8:24 PM

jaykass

Yeah, I did the same with the RPi3b, it performs a lot better at 720p. I agree with you that it would make sense to set 1080p as a default for the RPi4. Hardware accelerated video playback at 4k is a totally different thing from being able to rendering graphics at 4k. Could you tell me a bit about how it performs in different cores? Is it powerful enough to use any shaders? I'd be interested to know if it can use the crt-frutbunn shader for example.

Liquidmercury

Your logs doesn't contain anything, I guess you rebooted. In any case, I don't know how you expected a Celeron 1017U to run PCSX2, it requires AVX2: PCSX2 - The Playstation 2 emulator - Getting Started

I doubt Dolphin will run any games satisfactory on that CPU either. You should be able to use a real wiimote though.

As for the latest generic image, looks like I set wrong compiler optimization by mistake. I've removed it and currently building a new image.

Liquidmercury · January 28, 2020 at 8:29 PM

on your competitors build it seemed to run anyway just wanted to see what the system i have can do before i begin looking for a new one in earnest. Guess hes given up and to each thier own i guess anyway I really like how yours is put together and thanks for all the hard work.

jaykass · January 28, 2020 at 10:49 PM

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jaykass

Yeah, I did the same with the RPi3b, it performs a lot better at 720p. I agree with you that it would make sense to set 1080p as a default for the RPi4. Hardware accelerated video playback at 4k is a totally different thing from being able to rendering graphics at 4k. Could you tell me a bit about how it performs in different cores? Is it powerful enough to use any shaders? I'd be interested to know if it can use the crt-frutbunn shader for example.

I'll continue to test cores and I'll look at that shader specifically. So far everything I've tested has been at 1080p 60fps.

Are you interested in pull requests? I would like to have just a few more cores (tg16/pcengine, Sega CD, sameboy or gambatte depending on performance). If you push your latest to GitHub, I'll send some PR if/when I make any worthwhile changes.