Emulationstation: Screen don't fit after Update

[Swampy]

I’m using a Raspberry Pi 2 with Composite Video and an old TV. After I updated the RetroPie Script and the emulators (3.0 -> 3.1), the Emulationstation screen is too big for the TV. The screen is OK for the emulators and for the boot-process. Only Emulationstation don’t fit.
Is it possible, that a kernel-update was the problem?
Is it also possible, that I can change the dimensions only for the Emulationstation-screen?
Any other experiences with composite-video?

Thanks in advance and sorry for my bad English.

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[petrockblog]

I believe it is related to a firmware/kernel update as someone else had the problems too.

you can use rpi-update to roll back firmware and find out when it breaks – backup your system first etc.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=19415 has some basic instructions on how to do this.

if we can pin it down to a specific update we can report it back to rpi firmware github.

[petrockblog]

At least it would help confirm if it is firmware or something else config wise which has changed.

[Swampy]

Thank you for your fast post. One additional question:
What was the firmware/kernel-version of Retropie 3.0?
It would be easier to test, if I have a specific timeline.
Then I can reply from which version the problem appears.

[shoothere]

Hi Swampy,

I made a thread with what seems to be the same problem.

Issues after update to 3.1 (fresh) from 3.0b

I went all the way down to 3.18.16 and the problem persisted.

Which emulators have you tried? The GBA one goes offscreen for me.

Perhaps it doesn’t matter but what kind of TV do you have? We have a Panasonic Plasma.

[Swampy]

OK, just tried kernel: Bump to 3.18.10 -> works
kernel: Bump to 3.18.16 -> Don’t work
kernel: Bump to 3.18.14 -> Don’t work
kernel: Bump to 4.0.5 -> Don’t work

Bump to 3.18.10: sudo rpi-update 8751db9fd7138848c29cc55ec05f95c9eea80acb

My TV: Panasonic TBM8E2145 (CRT)

[Swampy]

OK, just tried kernel: Bump to 3.18.12 -> works too

Bump to 3.18.12: sudo rpi-update 2f4703cbee9801ef04adcf63d74823961cc3c275

The problem must be somewhere between kernel 3.18.12 and kernel 3.18.14.
I will test them too!

For now the screen-problems disappeared with kernel 3.18.12

[shoothere]

I can confirm going all the way down to 3.18.12 fixed it for me too.

[petrockblog]

Please work out which commit the behaviour changed and then open a ticket on https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware with details of the last commit it worked, the one where it broke, and your config.txt (which really just has the overscan_scale=1 set which is related)

[petrockblog]

It may be something they changed intentionally, but it will help me to know what we need to change our end.

[Swampy]

OK, i will check that in the next days and post it. I never opened a ticket on github. I hope I will manage this.

Thanks for your help!

[Swampy]

kernel: Bump to 3.18.13 (Commits on May 9, 2015) is the last which works good.
With firmware: video_render: Use crop rectangles rather than port parameters to handle opaque images (Commits on May 13, 2015) the problem appears.

Last working:
https://github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-firmware/commit/8521fd34c8f66b6d109acce943f6e25ec93ec005
First not working:
https://github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-firmware/commit/03b44377dd1f410900d93ca92d39cdacba3544ac

[Swampy]

I opened a ticket on https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware and I hope I described the problem correct.

[petrockblog]

Looks good thanks. Let’s see what they say.

[shoothere]

Would further input from me on the ticket/issue help?

[petrockblog]

Well yes because they asked you a question, but I have answered it for you :)

[petrockblog]

Aah sorry I have got mixed up – you could mention it affects you too I guess – sorry!

[smartroad]

I have the same issue, it is like EmuStat isn’t honouring the overscan settings?

[petrockblog]

See https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/484

[Swampy]

I always used a retropie-image. I think popcornmix (https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/484) has builded emulationstation from source. Is there anybody, who might help popcornmix to reach the main menu.

[Swampy]

I have tested the testbuild https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3669512/temp/firmware_scale.zip and it solves the problem for me. I only have tested emulationstation, not the emulators. Perhaps, somebody of you would like to do this.

[shoothere]

Willing to test but does one use the rpi-update tool for this?

[Swampy]

Willing to test but does one use the rpi-update tool for this?

First you have to update with sudo rpi-update. I think that is not necessary, but I have done that, to get the latest firmware and kernel. Then you must download the testbuild https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3669512/temp/firmware_scale.zip. You have to unzip the file and copy the included files to the /boot directory of your retropie-image. The old files must be overwritten. If popcornmix will include this in the next version of the firmware, you only have to do sudo rpi-update.

[Swampy]

popcornmix has fixed the problem. Thank you all for helping me.
A sudo rpi-update will do it now!

[shoothere]

I can confirm the issue is resolved for me too!

[Anonymous]

I did a sudo rpi-update it put me to 4.1.13-v7+ and the “Start” Menu “A” Select are still off the bottom/left of the screen about half way. I did the overscan in the config.txt and that didnt do anything at all either. I set the HDMI mode to 720p as well and same thing.

FIXED: added overscan_scale=1 to my config.txt and all is well now.

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