Black screen when exiting to console

[petrockblog]

Hi Aloshi,

when I run the unstable branch of EmulationStation and exit it via F4 on the RPi, the screen turns black and stays in that state.

Do you have an idea what could be the cause of this? Do you need further (debug) information?

[Aloshi]

I'm rebuilding ES from scratch on a fresh Raspbian image right now, I will test this later tonight. Does this happen even if you exit just after everything starts up (without starting a game or anything)?

Does the process terminate (if you can, try checking over SSH)? My best guess is the renderer is not deinitializing correctly for some reason.

[Aloshi]

Finished my build, I can't seem to reproduce this.

[ghost]

i can ssh into, and I've had the console appear on my tv screen twice

[Aloshi]

I've had other reports of this, so it's definitely an issue. I'll test the new RetroPie image myself later tonight.

[petrockblog]

You need to change console via Ctrl-Alt-F2 (and back again via Ctrl-Alt-F1) with version 2.0 of the RetroPie image. This will be fixed with the upcoming update of the sd card image.

[Aloshi]

@petrockblog It wasn't an issue with ES? What was the problem?

[petrockblog]

To show the splash screen during boot the tool fbiis used. However, the output was console 1 and not console 2. I have just fixed that (see https://github.com/petrockblog/RetroPie-Setup/blob/master/supplementary/asplashscreen/asplashscreen#L17).