[Solved] Retroarch launching as only a black screen

Osonicrage · 2019-09-12 16:12:22

Hey all,

Been having some trouble getting RetroArch working on this machine. Launching the program either through Rofi or in a terminal with

retroarch --menu --verbose

only gives me a black window. It seems like the program is running because hitting 'f' makes it go from fullscreen to windowed and vice versa and double tapping 'esc' also exits the program.

I originally thought it was related to this issue https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/63575. However, after the updated release was pushed to the repositories I updated and the issue persisted. Further, I removed my RetroArch install and instead compiled it from the nightly source, grabbed the asset files and I still get the same issue. I'm honestly not sure what the issue could even be.

Here is the log file that RetroArch generates when I run it:

[INFO] RetroArch 1.7.8 (Git f004666674)
[INFO] === Build =======================================
[INFO] CPU Model Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7820HK CPU @ 2.90GHz
[INFO] Capabilities: MMX MMXEXT SSE1 SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE4 SSE4.2 AVX AES 
[INFO] Built: Sep 11 2019
[INFO] Version: 1.7.8
[INFO] Git: f004666674
[INFO] =================================================
[INFO] Environ SET_PIXEL_FORMAT: RGB565.
[INFO] Version of libretro API: 1
[INFO] Compiled against API: 1
[INFO] [Audio]: Set audio input rate to: 30000.00 Hz.
[INFO] [Video]: Video @ fullscreen
[ERROR] [Wayland]: Failed to connect to Wayland server.
[INFO] [GLX]: GLX_EXT_swap_control_tear supported.
[INFO] [GLX]: GLX_OML_sync_control and GLX_MESA_swap_control supported, using better swap control method...
[INFO] [GL]: Found GL context: x
[INFO] [GL]: Detecting screen resolution 3840x2160.
[INFO] [GLX]: Window manager is bspwm.
[INFO] [XINERAMA]: Xinerama screens: 0.
[INFO] [GLX]: Xinerama is not active on screen.
[INFO] [GLX]: X = 0, Y = 0, W = 3840, H = 2160.
[INFO] [GLX]: Using windowed fullscreen.
[INFO] [GLX]: Found swap function: glXSwapIntervalEXT.
[INFO] [GLX]: glXSwapIntervalEXT(1)
[INFO] [GL]: Vendor: NVIDIA Corporation, Renderer: GeForce GTX 1080/PCIe/SSE2.
[INFO] [GL]: Version: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 435.21.
[INFO] [GL]: Using resolution 3840x2160
[INFO] [GL]: Default shader backend found: glsl.
[INFO] [Shader driver]: Using GLSL shader backend.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Checking GLSL shader support ...
[WARN] [GL]: Stock GLSL shaders will be used.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL vertex shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL fragment shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Linking GLSL program.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL vertex shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL fragment shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Linking GLSL program.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL vertex shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL fragment shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Linking GLSL program.
[INFO] Setting up menu pipeline shaders for XMB ... 
[INFO] [GLSL]: Compiling ribbon shader..
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL vertex shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL fragment shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Linking GLSL program.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Compiling simple ribbon shader..
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL vertex shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL fragment shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Linking GLSL program.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Compiling snow shader..
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL vertex shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL fragment shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Linking GLSL program.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Compiling modern snow shader..
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL vertex shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL fragment shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Linking GLSL program.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Compiling bokeh shader..
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL vertex shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL fragment shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Linking GLSL program.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Compiling snowflake shader..
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL vertex shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Found GLSL fragment shader.
[INFO] [GLSL]: Linking GLSL program.
[INFO] [GL]: Using 4 textures.
[INFO] [GL]: Loaded 1 program(s).
[INFO] [GL]: Using GL_RGB565 for texture uploads.
[INFO] [Joypad]: Found joypad driver: "udev".
[INFO] [Font]: Using font rendering backend: freetype.
[INFO] [X11]: Suspending screensaver (X11, xdg-screensaver).
[INFO] [Video]: Found display server: x11
[INFO] [ALSA]: Using signed 16-bit format.
[INFO] [ALSA]: Period size: 1024 frames
[INFO] [ALSA]: Buffer size: 3072 frames
[INFO] [ALSA]: Can pause: no.
[INFO] [Menu]: Found menu display driver: "gl".
[INFO] [Font]: Using font rendering backend: freetype.
[INFO] [Font]: Using font rendering backend: freetype.
[INFO] [Menu]: Found menu display driver: "gl".
[CDROM] No sg devices found and sg kernel module is not loaded.
[INFO] [Font]: Using font rendering backend: freetype.
[INFO] [Font]: Using font rendering backend: freetype.
[INFO] [LED]: LED driver = 'null' 0x55d659fdc240
[INFO] [MIDI]: Initializing ...
ALSA lib seq_hw.c:466:(snd_seq_hw_open) open /dev/snd/seq failed: Permission denied
[ERROR] [MIDI]: snd_seq_open failed with error -13.
[ERROR] [MIDI]: Initialization failed (list of input devices unavailable).
[INFO] SRAM will not be saved.
[INFO] Loading history file: [/home/morphinehorror/.config/retroarch/content_history.lpl].
[INFO] Loading history file: [/home/morphinehorror/.config/retroarch/content_music_history.lpl].
[INFO] Loading history file: [/home/morphinehorror/.config/retroarch/content_video_history.lpl].
[INFO] Loading history file: [/home/morphinehorror/.config/retroarch/content_image_history.lpl].
[INFO] Loading favorites file: [/home/morphinehorror/.config/retroarch/content_favorites.lpl].
[INFO] [GL]: VSync => on
[INFO] [GLX]: glXSwapIntervalEXT(1)
[INFO] [GL]: VSync => on
[INFO] [GLX]: glXSwapIntervalEXT(1)
[INFO] [Font]: Using font rendering backend: freetype.
[INFO] [Font]: Using font rendering backend: freetype.
[INFO] [config] Saved new config to "/home/morphinehorror/.config/retroarch/retroarch.cfg".
[INFO] Content ran for a total of: 00 hours, 00 minutes, 00 seconds.
[INFO] Unloading game..
[INFO] Unloading core..
[INFO] Unloading core symbols..
[INFO] [XINERAMA]: Xinerama screens: 0.
[INFO] [XINERAMA]: Saved monitor #0.
[INFO] [Video]: Does not have enough samples for monitor refresh rate estimation. Requires to run for at least 4096 frames.
[INFO] [Video]: Does not have enough samples for monitor refresh rate estimation. Requires to run for at least 4096 frames.

I've deleted my ~/.config/retroarch/retroarch.cfg file to have it generate a fresh one. I've changed the menu driver from xmb to rgui and back again.

EDIT
Seems to be working after changing the video_driver to vulkan in /etc/retroarch.cfg

Last edited by Osonicrage (2019-09-13 20:52:11)

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#1 2019-09-12 16:12:22

[Solved] Retroarch launching as only a black screen

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