Reply To: RetroPie white screens during loadup with certain roms installed

[phillipjfry]

I don’t know what power supply I’m using. It’s an amazon 7 port powered USB hub with the rPI plugged into one of the two high powered usb ports on the front
www amazon com / AmazonBasics-Port-USB-power-adapter/dp/B00DQFGJR4

Here’s what I did last night:
Fresh install, first boot, changed locale to US UTF 8 as default (kept original starred), rebooted, ES runs correctly

Second boot, changed timezone to US/Eastern, rebooted, ES runs correctly

Third boot, changed keyboard to Generic 104-key pc, Other, English (US), English (US), default keyboard layout, no compose key, No terminate x server, rebooted, ES runs correctly

Fourth boot, overclocked to Medium, rebooted, ES runs correctly

Fifth boot, copied backup roms over to retropie via filezilla to roms directory, ES runs correctly, reboot, ES runs correctly

Sixth boot, disabled overscan (removes black bars), reboot, overscan disabled correctly (no black bars on bottom), ES runs correctly

Seventh boot, scraped some images using gamesdb (archive seems to give most issues, no images and segfaults emulationstation, also why doesn’t pac man and ms pac man scraping ever work? never finds results), played some games, lost track of time and figured out there’s more testing to be done

Eighth boot, overclock to high, reboot, ES runs correctly, running apt-get update && apt-get upgrade, reboot, ES runs correctly

Ninth boot, updated raspi-config, changed memsplit to 384 (was 256 default), black screen. Instead of white screen. I am sure that I have two of the 512mem models.
Kill -9 ES via ssh, updated retropie-setup script to the latest version, reboot.

Tenth boot, white screen, kill ES via ssh, update binaries in retropie-setup.sh (first option).

The thing is, I’ve had 384 as the memsplit before but then SOMETHING changes then it reboots to ES having a white screen.
I can’t help but feel like the locales are causing this issue, either changing them or not removing the old one or ES is having an issue because it’s not using the old UK locale

Eleventh boot, updating binaries reset memsplit back to 256, ES runs correctly

Twelvth boot, changing memsplit back to 384, ES becomes white screen, kill -9 via ssh, running sudo ./retropie-setup.sh, SETUP, ES-Config

Thirteenth boot, ES runs to white screen after running ES-Config in 12th step

Next step is to run all the steps above again after reflashing the SD card with the original 2.3 image and NOT changing the locale or keyboard setting

I have the weekend to perform a couple of server upgrades but I’ll squeeze in some time to try some other weird combinations to see if we can haev 384 memsplit and ES run correctly