Has anyone installed RetroPie on the LaFrite?

Madrock

Hello All!!!
I am wondering if anyone has successfully installed RetroPie and if so are there any instructions?

PS:  Please note I have searched the forums and didn't find a discussion.  Also I am an absolute total complete noob when it comes to this stuff

Peace
Phil

qu1que

Hi,

I'm trying to install retropie, but when I try this command

$ sudo ./retropie_setup.sh

I get this error:

Unknown platform - please manually set the __platform variable to one of the following: armv7-mali generic-x11 imx6 odroid-c1 odroid-c2 odroid-xu rpi1 rpi2 rpi3 rpi4 tinker vero4k x86

And I don't know how to set that variable and which is the correct option for "la frite"

Anyone has any idea?

EDITED:

I've tried this command and now it can launch the retropie main menu:

sudo __platform=armv7-mali ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh

On future posts I will write my advances

qu1que

After trying option 1 from retropie menu (Basic install), I've found a lot of errors with several packages that could not be installed. So, I've tried installing them manually:

1. sudo apt install libudev-dev libibus-1.0-dev libdbus-1-dev fcitx-libs-dev libsndio-dev libx11-dev libxcursor-dev libxext-dev libxi-dev libxinerama-dev libxkbcommon-dev libxrandr-dev libxss-dev libxt-dev libxv-dev libxxf86vm-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libegl1-mesa-dev libgles2-mesa-dev devscripts debhelper dh-autoreconf libusb-1.0-0-dev  libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libavdevice-dev mali-fbdev

2. It gives me ERROR installing mali-fbdev package. Package NOT FOUND
3. So, I've execute last command without package mali-fbdev. Result OK, NO ERRORS.
4. I've tried again Retropie Basic Install (first option from Retropie menu). Same result as point 2

5. CONCLUSION: there's no way to install mali-fbdev package, so it can't be finnished the Retropie installation.

Any idea?

loverpi

RetroPie is currently all kinds of messed up because of the transition to KMS from legacy Raspberry Pi binaries and mali blobs. Currently working with libretro and RetroPie to use the latest upstream kernel APIs.

qu1que

Ok. Thanks for your answer.

djismgaming

qu1que said:

Ok. Thanks for your answer.

Which OS did you try into? I'm about to try it using Armbian Ubuntu image on it's latest iteration. Sometimes we need to add a package component like non-free or testing into /etc/apt/sources.list 

For example, I had to add "testing" to the default "main" in Debian 10 in order to install PCSX2 into an Intel Nuc (x64) for use in RetroPie (yesterday) because error log stated that package could not be found to install (PCSX2 is a binary package available in the "testing" component of the Debian repositories. Testing is not available by default on Debian.

https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList#Component

I have yet to try it in Armbian Ubuntu on La Frite.
Although the compiling should take a lot of time I think.
That's why I'll always wait for the official image from LibreComputer too. But boy have you picked my interest.

I'll see if I find that package on armbian and report back.

djismgaming

Found these only without modification to sources.list file

mali-midgard-dkms/bionic,bionic 16.0+pristine-1 all

mali-t62x-fbdev-driver/bionic 0.1-2 armhf

mali-t62x-wayland-driver/bionic 0.1-2 armhf

mali-t62x-x11-driver/bionic 0.1-2 armhf

mali-t76x-fbdev-driver/bionic 0.1-2 armhf

mali-t76x-wayland-driver/bionic 0.1-2 armhf

mali-t76x-x11-driver/bionic 0.1-2 armhf

djismgaming

mali-t62x-fbdev-driver

mali-t76x-fbdev-driver

These two are the most similar but let me look if I find exactly the one in another component of sources.list

slaminger

I'm building project ARES on it as I type this. My name is Steve. I'm the owner of the Retro Arena, The Tech Toy Tinker Company, and the Slash TV Android OS. ARES is similar to Retropie but has other front end options, more cores and systems, and different options in the menu. We support Odroid devices generally, along with Jetson Nano. But I've got my hands on this device and I figured since it's here, I might as well do a build. I'm currently compiling the retroarch cores, once that's done I can back up my image and start testing / making a video or two of the project. I plan to create a post here and share the image with the community once it's up and running and has at least a handful of playable emulators. 

slaminger

qu1que said:

Hi,

I'm trying to install retropie, but when I try this command

$ sudo ./retropie_setup.sh

I get this error:

Unknown platform - please manually set the __platform variable to one of the following: armv7-mali generic-x11 imx6 odroid-c1 odroid-c2 odroid-xu rpi1 rpi2 rpi3 rpi4 tinker vero4k x86

And I don't know how to set that variable and which is the correct option for "la frite"

Anyone has any idea?

EDITED:

I've tried this command and now it can launch the retropie main menu:

sudo __platform=armv7-mali ~/RetroPie-Setup/retropie_setup.sh

On future posts I will write my advances

There is no correct option for la frite, you need to fork the git and manually add the hardware to it yourself. Look in scriptmodules and find system.sh, in there you will see the different hardware defined, add la frite to it, make sure the cpu and tuning and all that good stuff is correct for this device, then clone that git and it will have a la frite build flag. Some emulators or cores may require different modifications as well as they are dependant on what the device ID is in terms of what libraries and dependencies they need.