Not Booting in Raspberry Pi 4

[actraiser30]

Hello, i tried today the latest pes version 2,7 for the Raspberry pi 4 (1GB version)
after resizing partition its not booting the Gui it stucks in the operations completed successfully message,after i remove the power and put it back it stucks in the starting pes message
i tried the image in the Raspberry pi 3B and works fine

is this a known bug on the Rpi 4?

Thanks

[neilmunday]

Hi @actraiser30. Sorry to hear that PES is not working for you on your RPi 4 - I have to confess that I have not been able to test PES on a Raspberry Pi 4 as I do not have access to one. However, the firmware that comes with Arch Linux should work with the Raspberry Pi 4.

As you have a RPi 4, can you try this for me please?

1. Boot your RPi 4.

2. Connect a keyboard to your RPi 4 or SSH in.

3. If using a keyboard, press "Ctrl + C" to kill the PES GUI.

Now if using a keyboard or SSH, run the command ps -aef | grep python. Take a note of the process ID (left hand column) of any Python processes that reference the PES GUI and for each one run: kill -9 PROCESS_ID where PROCESS_ID is the number of the process.

4. At this point there should be no PES prcesses running. You can confirm this by re-rerunning: ps -aef | grep python.

5. Now launch PES in debug mode: /opt/pes/bin/pes -v

6. Please share with me the output. Does the GUI load at all?

[actraiser30]

Hi sorry for the delay,i cannot kill the gui i have a mini usb keyboard/mouse and the Ctrl + C does not seem to do anything,i dont have a normal keyboard to check it.also the | symbol is not working in my keyboard,im afraid you need to find an Rpi 4 and try it your self

ps i managed somehow to run the gui after i crash it,it stucks in 100% loading/loaded GUI message

[actraiser30]

i also managed to update the firmware and switch it to raspberrypi4 but still stucks in loading
arch linux must be the problem,is there a way to install pes to raspbian buster lite?

thanks

[neilmunday]

Creating a Raspbian version of PES would take a lot of time and effort.

A friend is kindly lending me his Raspberry Pi 4 next week so hopefully I will be able to work out what the problem is.

[neilmunday]

I've now been able to repeat the issue. It would appear that since the Raspberry Pi 4 has been released, the ArchLinux Arm site has now produced a separate Raspberry Pi 4 image rather than using the Raspberry Pi 2 image (as advised originally). I will therefore have to create an image from scratch for the Raspberry Pi 4.

[neilmunday]

After doing some further reading, the Raspberry Pi 4 does not use the closed source VC4 driver (usually found under /opt/vc). Instead the the open source vc4-fkms-v3d driver should be used instead. I'm trying to get this working.

[neilmunday]

Status update...

• PES GUI (now at version 2.8)
• Vice Emulator (standalone C64)
• Kodi
• Retroarch:
• Mupen64plus (standalone N64) -> now replaced with libretro version instead
• PPSSPP (standalone PSP)

[neilmunday]

Unable to compile PPSSPP at the moment. Issue raised at: hrydgard/ppsspp#12346

PES 2.8 (BETA) for the Raspberry Pi 4 will be released without this emulator for now.

[neilmunday]

PES 2.8 BETA image for the Raspberry Pi 4 can be found at: http://www.mundayweb.com/pes/pes-2.8-BETA-2019-09-23-rpi4.img.gz.torrent

Feedback welcome.

[neilmunday]

Direct download (md5sum: a95a8c848f86c04dfcf958355c9e21ac, 1.3GB) now available.

[neilmunday]

@actraiser30 have you tried out the image?

[neilmunday]

Closing, PES 2.8 BETA for RPi 4 released as above.