Retropie on Odroid XU4

[devil78]

Hi, I purchased ODROID XU4 , a 64 -bit Octa Core SOC with Debian 8.0 installed . I would try to change your scripts so that they are compatible with Odroid . Raspi – config will be replaced with ODROID setup . The purely designed to RaspberryPI , where possible , will be replaced with the proper information , otherwise they will be eliminated from the Retropie Menu. Before proceeding I would like to have your opinion . If so I will share on sourceforge otherwise , if not, I will keep for myself the work done . I need to know , before going to ‘work , if Retropie works in a Frame Buffer mode or requires the X server to function properly . Thank you :)

[gizmo98]

Use github and fork retropie-setup. Modify https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/master/scriptmodules/system.sh. Add a platform for ux4 and try to use something like ‘if ux4 ,then…’ in modules. Then start retropie setup with ‘__platform=ux4 ./retropie_setup.sh’.

[efraimsangil]

Hi!

I have ODROID XU4 too and I am very interested to have Retropie with emulationStation :)

I will try the gizmo98 suggestion :)

Regards

[efraimsangil]

It doesn’t work… there exists a lot of errors…

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Installing dependencies for 'retroarch' : RetroArch
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Did not find needed package(s): libudev-dev libxkbcommon-dev libsdl2-dev mali-fbdev libusb-1.0-0-dev. I am trying to install them now.

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Installing dependencies for 'sdl2' : SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) v2.x
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Did not find needed package(s): devscripts debhelper dh-autoreconf libudev-dev libdbus-1-dev mali-fbdev. I am trying to install them now.
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
E: Unable to locate package mali-fbdev
Could not install package(s): devscripts debhelper dh-autoreconf libudev-dev libdbus-1-dev mali-fbdev.
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
E: Unable to locate package mali-fbdev
Could not install package(s): libudev-dev libxkbcommon-dev mali-fbdev libusb-1.0-0-dev.

Ok… now… find how to fix it :)

[gizmo98]

Try this:
__platform=armv7-mali ./retropie_setup.sh

[petrockblog]

I think the XU4 needs a different fbdev driver, and it looks as though it isn’t packaged (yet) as it is for the odroid-c1

you could manually install it

http://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=16272

and then remove the dependency for the fbdev-mali package – this is going to require development knowledge though – unless you just built things for running under X11

(__platform=generic-x11)

[petrockblog]

This is really going to require a developer with this board to contribute to RetroPie-Setup to get it properly working though really.

[efraimsangil]

Yes, I am agree with you, Buzz. In odroid forum, the users are using EmulationStation under X11 but I think that this solution it’s not better. I think the better option it’s run Retropie without X11 because… –> Best performance :)

I’ll make more testing :)

[devil78]

You CAN install X11 and launch EmulationStation with xinit emulationstation i use this command to launch Attract Mode, wich require Xorg, from EmulationStation in Retropie on Raspberry pi 2.

[efraimsangil]

Hmmm I try, yes, thanks devil78. Now I am compiling ES…

[efraimsangil]

Ops! Problems…

lvl0: 	Error initializing SDL!
	No available video device
lvl0: 	Renderer failed to initialize!
lvl0: 	Window failed to initialize!

Now, I need study how to fix that.

[devil78]

What linux distro? May be you need to install the mali driver…

[efraimsangil]

[quote=115856]What linux distro? May be you need to install the mali driver…

[/quote]

Debian-Jessie-1.0-RC2-20151123-XU3.img

Downloaded from: http://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=96&t=17542

[devil78]

I think mali driver is needed for SDL

Inviato dal mio Pet utilizzando Tapatalk

[efraimsangil]

[quote=115850]You CAN install X11 and launch EmulationStation with xinit emulationstation i use this command to launch Attract Mode, wich require Xorg, from EmulationStation in Retropie on Raspberry pi 2.

[/quote]

I try with other distribution…

ODROID-GameStation-Turbo-3.1-RC2-20150920-XU3-Jessie.img

I make some changes to prevent start X11:

root@gamestation-turbo:~# cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager 
# /usr/sbin/lightdm

And changes in inittab

# /etc/inittab: init(8) configuration.
# $Id: inittab,v 1.91 2002/01/25 13:35:21 miquels Exp $

# The default runlevel.
id:2:initdefault:

Then I try with:

xinit emulationstation

And the results:

X.Org X Server 1.16.4
Release Date: 2014-12-20
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 3.16.0-0.bpo.4-armmp-lpae armv7l Debian
Current Operating System: Linux gamestation-turbo 3.10.82+ #29 SMP PREEMPT Sun Oct 4 11:37:23 CEST 2015 armv7l
Kernel command line: coherent_pool=2M console=tty1 console=ttySAC2,115200n8 root=UUID=e139ce78-9841-40fe-8823-96a304a09859 rootwait ro fsck.repair=yes smsc95xx.macaddr=00:1e:06:61:7a:88 governor=performance hdmi_tx_amp_lvl=31 hdmi_tx_lvl_ch0=3 hdmi_tx_lvl_ch1=3 hdmi_tx_lvl_ch2=3 hdmi_tx_emp_lvl=6 hdmi_clk_amp_lvl=31 hdmi_tx_res=0 HPD=true
Build Date: 11 February 2015  01:18:06AM
xorg-server 2:1.16.4-1 (http://www.debian.org/support) 
Current version of pixman: 0.32.6
	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Feb  1 15:04:31 2016
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
xinit: connection to X server lost

waiting for X server to shut down (EE) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.

I don’t have a lot of knowlegde of Linux… but… I read a lot and I try everything to learn.

[efraimsangil]

Well, I try:

xinit xclock

And works perfectly… So… I don’t know what’s the next step… :-/

[petrockblog]

I would start with their officially supported os (ubuntu). Might include the mali fbdev package also as with the odroid c1

[efraimsangil]

Hmmm, I going to try same steps with this version of ubuntu:

http://odroid.in/ubuntu_14.04lts/

[herbfargus]

These are my partial notes on installing on my odroid C1+:

https://github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Odroid

[efraimsangil]

[quote=115914]https://github.com/retropie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Odroid[/quote]

Thanks, I am going to try your notes :)

[efraimsangil]

First…

odroid@odroid:~/RetroPie-Setup$ sudo ./retropie_setup.sh 
[sudo] password for odroid: 
Unknown platform - please manually set the __platform variable to one of the following: armv7-mali generic-x11 odroid-c1 rpi1 rpi2 x86

So… I am added this lines in system.sh:

            ODROID-XU3)
                __platform="odroid-c1"
                ;;
            *)

More problems…

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Installing dependencies for 'sdl2' : SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) v2.x
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Did not find needed package(s): devscripts libxss-dev mali-fbdev.

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