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- 1) Install Retropie raspberry pi 4 image on sd card, boot & expand filesystem and setup keys in emulation station then exit emulation station
- 2) Get dependencies and things we need later (we use sfml-dev from repo's not sfml-pi)
- sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libflac-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev libopenal-dev libfreetype6-dev libudev-dev libjpeg-dev libudev-dev libfontconfig1-dev libsfml-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev xinit fluxbox xterm x11-xserver-utils
- 3) create develop dir
- cd ~; mkdir develop
- 4) Build ffmpeg with mmal support (can take a while you can run make -j4 to speed up the building instead just make on a pi 4)
- cd ~/develop
- git clone --depth 1 git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git
- cd ffmpeg
- ./configure --enable-mmal --disable-debug --enable-shared
- make -j4
- sudo make install
- sudo ldconfig
- 5) Build attractmode (same here can supply -j4 to make to speed it up on a pi 4)
- if you want multiple monitor support add USE_XINERAMA=1 on both make statements. I'm not sure about USE_GLES=1 i've used it now
- and seemed to work but did not work if i provided it also on 2nd make statement if i did that attract would not run inside x
- cd ~/develop
- git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mickelson/attract attract
- cd attract
- make -j4 USE_GLES=1 USE_XLIB=1 USE_LIBCURL=1
- sudo make install USE_XLIB=1 USE_LIBCURL=1
- 6) set up fluxbox
- run startx from the pi itselve (not from ssh connection) fluxbox will start,
- right click desktop choose configuration -> toolbar -> visible to hide the toolbar
- 7) try a test run of attract by running attract also in the xterm inside X / fluxbox by right clicking and choosing programs then shells then bash, in attract choose the language and check in general settings that you can choose mmal as videodecoder
- 8) for me mmal decoder have problems with the default video memory split so i run 'sudo raspi-config' and set my memory split to 512 in advanced options and reboot although lower values might work
- but not changing it made video's not show up or act weird with default memory split.
- 9) exit emulation station after you rebooted to set the memory split using raspi-config and
- edit /home/pi/.fluxbox/apps using nano
- this file lets you define window settings for specific apps.
- Some emulators run inside a window and i did not want to see the titlebar etc
- and also ran X Full screen so i added this (replacing anything that already existed):
- [app] (name=fbrun)
- [Position] (WINCENTER) {0 0}
- [Layer] {2}
- [end]
- [app] (name=xterm)
- [Maximized] {yes}
- [Deco] {NONE}
- [end]
- [app] (name=PPSSPPSDL)
- [Deco] {NONE}
- [end]
- [app] (name=scummvm)
- [Deco] {NONE}
- [end]
- [app] (name=advmame)
- [Deco] {NONE}
- [end]
- 10) create a file runattract in /home/pi for example using 'nano /home/pi/runattract' and place this inside its to start attract but this file won't run but itselve
- #!/bin/bash
- #set governor to performance
- sudo sh -c "echo performance > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor"
- #sleep a bit to make sure everything is started
- sleep 2
- #change background to black
- fbsetroot --solid black
- #uncomment below to set specific resolution verify first with running xrandr without params
- #xrandr -s 1920x1080
- #run attract inside xterm with with foreground black background
- sleep 1 && xterm -fg white -bg black -e 'attract'
- #when we exit attract make sure we kill X
- sudo killall Xorg
- 11) close nano and give runattract execute rights 'chmod +x /home/pi/runattract'
- 11)edit /home/pi/.fluxbox/startup using nano and change 'exec fluxbox' to '/home/pi/runattract & exec fluxbox'
- 12) to disable powersaving (screen going blank) using sudo edit /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc so 'sudo nano /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc'
- change the line
- exec /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp "$@"
- to
- exec /usr/bin/X -s 0 -dpms -nolisten tcp "$@"
- 13) try startx again from the pi itselve it should autostart attract from a fullscreen xterm
- 14) exit attract it should kill X copy your .attract setups as usual and setup extra emulators using Retropie setup script
- 15) if all of the above works correctly edit /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh replace 'emulationstation' with 'startx' so it will automatically load X
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