Does GameShell Actually Use FBTurbo?

[r043v]

try renaming your xorg.conf file to not use it and recheck if xorg discover the card and assign proper driver

in a second time you can try make the conf folder and put conf into /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/02-lima.conf

you could also try the initial clockwork xorg conf

[Joao_Manoel]

@adcockm

I did upgrade to buster.

Just for your information. I also tried to upgrade my system to buster and lima driver stopped to work.

When Debian upgraded, it changed the Mesa from 20 (previosly installed on cpi OS v0.5) to 18.xx.

I thought that I could recompile Mesa as I did before, and just reinstall the drivers, this never worked. I saw that my compiled driver was being loaded when I tried kmscube (a tool to check if mesa is working), but mesa didn’t try to use the lima driver and was using always software rendering.

I spent some time on it, and in the end, I gave up. I didn’t see much gain using Debian Buster, and having lima working is more interesting for now.

Just to make sure, I installed a clean clockworkpi OS v.05, and the first thing that I did was the upgrade to buster. From there, I compiled mesa, installed, but never worked.

I still would like to know what else cpi developers did to have lima fully working on clockworkpi OS. Maybe they changed more libraries in Debian that we don’t know, and when Debian upgraded, it removed the manually installed libraries to the official ones and broke lima. If they needed more than just compile the mesa driver, would be good to know.

Seems like the SO is being maintained only by the community (users), and unfortunately, we don’t have much documentation in how they got everything working.

There are different kernel versions, but it is hard to find “the official”, with documented changes. A documented Debian changes would be amazing to have. For my use I don’t need a lot of the apps that are installed in the images, and I would like to have a minimalistic image just with the necessary to have all hardware working (no launchers, no X11…), but now I’m afraid to uninstall a package and brake the entire system.

[javelinface]

Not to mention there are a ton of leftover config files, and legacy references that are no longer valid.

I’m glad I’m not the only one who loses Lima support upon upgrading to buster. I thought it was something inherently wrong with how I was doing it. Would simply doing a hold on the Mesa libraries be enough fo maintain support? I wouldn’t know which ones would need to be held.

I remember back when I used cfw on my mobile phones, I would have an “aroma” installed, allowing me to install whatever component I want upon flashing my image, essentially building it on my first boot.

I would love to see a completely clean slate environment that could be built up like this; packages all existing on the image, ready to be built.

In fact, this is similar in concept to the NOOBS image provided by the raspberry pi team.

@Joao_Manoel

I still would like to know what else cpi developers did to have lima fully working on clockworkpi OS. Maybe they changed more libraries in Debian that we don’t know, and when Debian upgraded, it removed the manually installed libraries to the official ones and broke lima. If they needed more than just compile the mesa driver, would be good to know.

Here’s what @guu did, along with a lot more discussions surrounding it: Custom D.E.O.T. V1.0+/Clockwork OS v0.4 image - With Updated Kernel 5.3.6, Latest Lima Drivers, RA1.8.1, Mupen64+ and much more! (Current version: 191122) - #71 by guu

[adcockm]

Haven’t had a chunk of time to get back to this until now…

I agree, @Joao_Manoel, I wish there was more support/documentation for the official OS, and less detective work and wasted time required from the community at large. And while I appreciate @javelinface’s custom OS, I haven’t updated to it because I don’t want to have to reflash the OS fresh every time to get updates. I thought I might avoid that with the “official” 0.5 OS, but I guess the only upgrade path at present is to start over every time. While that might work somewhat ok for folks who just want to run emulators and play ROMs (though it’s still a bit of a pain to access the SD card, and to copy stuff back).

That said, I’m happy to see the pointer to that post, @javelinface. That’s something I haven’t tried. I’ll do those builds and see if that helps. Looks like that was for DEOT, but hopefully it is what @guu used in the official 0.5 OS as well. I’m not sure that is documented anywhere?

Since my current storage use on the Gameshell is 167GB (not sure how much of that is stuff I’d actually want to archive, but it will take a long time to figure it out and do that, and then copy it back to a fresh OS), I’d rather try a few more things to try to get Lima working on what I have, than spend another weekend or more archiving and then piecing everything back together! The OS flashing to the card is simple. Rebuilding the environment I have now is not.

If I do have to start over, I’ll probably use your custom DEOT image, partly because I haven’t tried it yet (and I’ve been curious about the DEOT interface changes), but also because it seems like one of the most actively maintained options. I just hope I pick it at a good time, since there probably won’t be an easy way to pick up fixes and updates. I’m also tempted to try @r043v’s Arch-based OS. I’m assuming it has working Lima support too? Seemed like it would be a bit easier to maintain int he long run, even if it’s not quite as fancy.

[javelinface]

Re: the DEOT builds, right now, the 200128 build is pretty much where I’m going to be for a while, with the only real thing to change being the retroarch config, just enabling V-Sync, filter path, and buildbox URL. I’ve got a link to the updated config in the thread.
So I’d say now is a good time. It’s fairly barebones, but with a few directory changes. It should be practically the same as a stock OS.

[adcockm]

Well, reproducing what guu did in that other thread actually made things worse. Where I was getting over 100fps before with glxgears when it reported using llvmpipe, now it reports softpipe and I get an abysmal 22fps. I’ll try swapping back and forth between lima to fbturbo and back and in the launcher, but I doubt that will change anything. I can roll this back and get to where I was before, but I’m surprised this made things worse. (Maybe there’s something to be learned from this, but I’m not sure what.)

cpi@clockworkpi:~$ DISPLAY=:0 glxgears -info
libGL error: failed to create dri screen
libGL error: failed to load driver: sun4i_drm
libGL error: failed to create dri screen
libGL error: failed to load driver: sun4i_drm
GL_RENDERER   = softpipe
GL_VERSION    = 3.1 Mesa 20.0.0-devel (git-02658df152)
GL_VENDOR     = VMware, Inc.
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VisualID 712, 0x2c8
115 frames in 5.0 seconds = 22.872 FPS
114 frames in 5.0 seconds = 22.722 FPS
114 frames in 5.0 seconds = 22.692 FPS
113 frames in 5.0 seconds = 22.486 FPS
114 frames in 5.0 seconds = 22.780 FPS
114 frames in 5.0 seconds = 22.775 FPS
114 frames in 5.0 seconds = 22.737 FPS

[adcockm]

Well, I guess that was a bad idea. When I changed to fbturbo and it rebooted, the launcher failed to load. Even manually restarting it from SSH gave:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "run.py", line 55, in <module>
    pygame.display.init()
pygame.error: Unable to open a console terminal

I noticed an empty ~/.lima file seemed to magically appear in the past when I had lima set in the launcher, so I create that and rebooted, but nothing changed, it still doesn’t load the launcher.

…and putting the lima directory back that I moved using guu’s post doesn’t help either, it still can’t run the launcher.

sudo mv /usr/lib/lima.old /usr/lib/lima/

So at this point I don’t see a way back or a way forward. So I’m going to put this away for a while and hope someone has an idea and posts in the meantime.

I can still ssh in and access everything. So I can still archive my files if I need to give up on this environment. But I’ll probably do that later next week if it comes to it.

I wish I knew what the launcher does when you select “FB Turbo”, because then I might be able to reverse it. I might try to wade through the python code and see if I can find what it does, and what setting "Lima’ in there does.

[javelinface]

Just to save you having to wade through a sea of posts, there was mention here of what happens when you change the driver:

Custom D.E.O.T. V1.0+/Clockwork OS v0.4 image - With Updated Kernel 5.3.6, Latest Lima Drivers, RA1.8.1, Mupen64+ and much more! (Current version: 191122)

I think to use launcher to switch to the FBturbo will save the steps of launcher will edit the /etc/ld.so.conf.d/00-arm…conf and run the ldconfig so that the lima-mesa will be totally disabled but the content of is definitely need to change And according to the general mesa library also needs to update to 19.1 which currently only available in the sid of debian now

[r043v]

Arch-based OS. I’m assuming it has working Lima support too? Seemed like it would be a bit easier to maintain int he long run, even if it’s not quite as fancy.

yes lima support, and update proof, it could also be fancy as it can run the clockwork launcher (but you’ll lose the multitask)

[Joao_Manoel]

@adcockm

failed to load driver: sun4i_drm

This is also a problem in the documentation. You already fixed it, not related to your problem. Looks like this name error is being spread in all compiled kernel in all cpi images. The CPI kernel makes a wrong reference to the driver name sun4i_drm whereas mesa driver install sun4i-drm. This force us to manually create a symbolic link or copy sun4i-drm to sun4i_drm which is a very bad thing to do for the lifespan of the device. In the future, when new people try to use the system they will get frustrated, as you did and I did. In some years this information (creating this symb links) will be less known.

If you go to the patch file for kernel 5.2 at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/clockworkpi/Kernel/master/v0.4/52rc4.patch

You will see this:

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_drv.c
index 3ff73998d841..1def6aa2a071 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_drv.c
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ static struct drm_driver sun4i_drv_driver = {
 
 	/* Generic Operations */
 	.fops			= &sun4i_drv_fops,
-	.name			= "sun4i-drm",
+	.name			= "sun4i_drm",
 	.desc			= "Allwinner sun4i Display Engine",
 	.date			= "20150629",
 	.major			= 1,

This is the cause of the problem. Maybe in the past they needed to do it to get lima working, but it is not necessary anymore. If you remove this part and reapply the patch you don’t need to create the symb link after.

I also found another error related to the kernel, the power button. I could bring the power button to do soft poweroff just removing some patches that were applied to the kernel. For me, this is a good feature, you don’t need to navigate in the menu to switch off, just press the power button once and it will send a poweroff to the OS as you could do to the PC:

How to get the power button to soft power off

Hi, I managed to get the power button to switch off the cpi. The power button is recognized as an input device (/dev/input/event0). If we press the power key the SO should soft power off the cpi. The problem is that if you press the key nothing happens, the key is not received by the SO. I needed to change the file drivers/mfd/axp20x.c from the linux kernel source after applying the cpi patch 52rc4.patch (https://github.com/clockworkpi/Kernel/blob/master/v0.4/52rc4.patch) to get it working as…

I wouldn’t be surprised if more of these tiny things are inside the SO that prevents us to get an updated system since we don’t know what else was changed in the SO to make everything working.

[guu]

cuu/launcher/blob/e15cf6041230bf4394e7c93f02926054279f7ec9/Menu/GameShell/10_Settings/Lima/__init__.py#L173

   else: #disable lima
                os.system("rm %s/.lima" % os.path.expanduser('~') )
                ArmSystem("sudo mv /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so.lima")
                ArmSystem("sudo sed -i 's/^[^#]*lima/#&/' /etc/ld.so.conf.d/00-arm-linux-gnueabihf.conf")
                ArmSystem("sudo ldconfig")

that is what is done when

@adcockm

when you select “FB Turbo”

[Joao_Manoel]

I think I found a clue to the problem.

I started to upgrade a few packages at time (~30) from the ~880 packages that we would need to upgrade to get up to date to buster.

Between each small upgrade, I tested lima driver if was still working. After arround 150 upgrades I got error when loading kmscube and I tried to downgrade one package by one from the last step until I get more information.

When I downgraded udev, and libudev I got lima driver back

To downgrade I needed to change stable to stretch in /etc/apt/sources.list and update

sudo apt update

and downgrade with the following:

sudo apt install libudev1=232-25+deb9u11

sudo apt install udev=232-25+deb9u11

after that, I rebooted and got lima working. If you still have your broke system, maybe you could try it before flashing a new image.

Good luck

[r043v]

awesome discover, great work !

[javelinface]

I am so glad that you managed to find the culprit after 150 iterations! Imagine. Sitting there till 880’th and finding it there.

I’m going to attempt deliberately breaking an installation, upgrading to buster, and seeing if it can be recovered with the downgrade.
Or better yet, doing an apt-mark hold on the packages.

Thanks so much for going the troubleshooting process! We may yet have Buster in our hands!

[Joao_Manoel]

To be honest, I thought that I would go to the 800th without finding anything. This kind of problem seems to be more a configuration than a version upgrade. But I’m happy that I could find something.

Even thought I think udev is not the only problem. I remember when I fully upgraded I got something like @adcockm found when he tried glxgears:

@adcockm

cpi@clockworkpi:~$ DISPLAY=:0 glxgears -info
libGL error: failed to create dri screen 
libGL error: failed to load driver: sun4i_drm 
libGL error: failed to create dri screen libGL error: failed to load driver: sun4i_drm

Here mesa tried to load the driver but failed, and used software rendering instead.

What I got now was that the mesa didn’t even try to load the drivers. It used software rendering from the beginning.

Let’s see if @adcockm can try this to see what he gets now. If it works, great, we are much closer to a buster updated image. If not we still need to do this kind of crazy test.

[adcockm]

The last thing I did to get my system into its current state was to use the steps mentioned here:

Custom D.E.O.T. V1.0+/Clockwork OS v0.4 image - With Updated Kernel 5.3.6, Latest Lima Drivers, RA1.8.1, Mupen64+ and much more! (Current version: 191122)

so I have tested the latest lima driver with your deot_v1+ 191111.img it works well than never under the latest lima we can use many other Window Mangers, not just dwm here is the progress ## install the new libdrm wget https://dri.freedesktop.org/libdrm/libdrm-2.4.100.tar.bz2 tar jxvf libdrm-2.4.100.tar.bz2 cd libdrm-2.4.100 ./configure --libdir=/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf make sudo make install cd ## install the mesa master branch sudo apt install g++ meson python3-mako zlib1g-dev l…

That’s what got me to the 22 FPS glxgears numbers (and the libGL errors), but what I didn’t realize at the time was it messed up my system even more somehow. I thought the problem with the launcher occurred after I used it to switch from lima to fbturbo, and rebooted, but I think it was actually just rebooting that caused the issue. I’ve been unable to load the launcher since (automatically or manually). And even manually “switching” between the two rendering modes doesn’t work (manually issuing the commands the init.py does as @guu described, and as I read in that file, to try going each way). The launcher doesn’t load, but the issue is deeper than that.

Here’s my latest Xorg log file:

[  3631.387] 
X.Org X Server 1.20.4
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[  3631.387] Build Operating System: Linux 4.9.0-8-arm64 armv8l Debian
[  3631.387] Current Operating System: Linux clockworkpi 5.3.6-clockworkpi-cpi3 #1 SMP Tue Oct 15 17:26:44 CST 2019 armv7l
[  3631.388] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200n8 earlyprintk no_console_suspend root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootfstype=ext4 rootwait init=/sbin/init noinitrd panic=10
[  3631.388] Build Date: 05 March 2019  08:11:12PM
[  3631.388] xorg-server 2:1.20.4-1 (https://www.debian.org/support) 
[  3631.388] Current version of pixman: 0.36.0
[  3631.388] 	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
[  3631.388] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[  3631.389] (==) Log file: "/home/cpi/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Feb  3 00:18:25 2020
[  3631.389] (++) Using config file: "/home/cpi/launcher/.xorg.conf"
[  3631.389] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[  3631.390] (==) No Layout section.  Using the first Screen section.
[  3631.390] (==) No screen section available. Using defaults.
[  3631.390] (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen Section" (0)
[  3631.390] (**) |   |-->Monitor "<default monitor>"
[  3631.392] (==) No device specified for screen "Default Screen Section".
	Using the first device section listed.
[  3631.392] (**) |   |-->Device "Allwinner A10/A13 FBDEV"
[  3631.392] (==) No monitor specified for screen "Default Screen Section".
	Using a default monitor configuration.
[  3631.392] (==) Automatically adding devices
[  3631.392] (==) Automatically enabling devices
[  3631.392] (==) Automatically adding GPU devices
[  3631.392] (==) Max clients allowed: 256, resource mask: 0x1fffff
[  3631.393] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
[  3631.393] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[  3631.393] (==) FontPath set to:
	/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
	/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,
	/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,
	/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,
	/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,
	/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,
	built-ins
[  3631.393] (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
[  3631.393] (II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices.
	If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or disable AutoAddDevices.
[  3631.393] (II) Loader magic: 0x581f98
[  3631.393] (II) Module ABI versions:
[  3631.393] 	X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
[  3631.393] 	X.Org Video Driver: 24.0
[  3631.393] 	X.Org XInput driver : 24.1
[  3631.393] 	X.Org Server Extension : 10.0
[  3631.396] (++) using VT number 1

[  3631.404] (II) systemd-logind: took control of session /org/freedesktop/login1/session/c1
[  3631.407] (II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card1)
[  3631.411] (II) systemd-logind: got fd for /dev/dri/card1 226:1 fd 11 paused 0
[  3631.413] (II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card0)
[  3631.416] (II) systemd-logind: got fd for /dev/dri/card0 226:0 fd 12 paused 0
[  3631.416] (II) no primary bus or device found
[  3631.416] 	falling back to /sys/devices/platform/display-engine/drm/card1
[  3631.416] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[  3631.417] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
[  3631.426] (II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[  3631.426] 	compiled for 1.20.4, module version = 1.0.0
[  3631.426] 	ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 10.0
[  3631.426] (II) LoadModule: "fbturbo"
[  3631.426] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/fbturbo_drv.so
[  3631.427] (II) Module fbturbo: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[  3631.427] 	compiled for 1.19.2, module version = 0.5.1
[  3631.427] 	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[  3631.427] 	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 23.0
[  3631.427] (EE) fbturbo: module ABI major version (23) doesn't match the server's version (24)
[  3631.427] (EE) Failed to load module "fbturbo" (module requirement mismatch, 0)
[  3631.427] (EE) No drivers available.
[  3631.427] (EE) 
Fatal server error:
[  3631.427] (EE) no screens found(EE) 
[  3631.428] (EE) 
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
	 at http://wiki.x.org
 for help. 
[  3631.428] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/home/cpi/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[  3631.428] (EE) 
[  3631.476] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

Something is wrong with the display now, no matter which driver is set up (as if via the launcher, but I just manually did it). After booting I get the usual text screen with the “no mail” message, but that’s it. I can still SSH in of course.

I also tried building mesa again, using one of the earlier methods that I had tried, which didn’t get me into this state, thinking maybe some parameter in the build process messed things up. But that didn’t work either – same result.

The only difference I know of is the first thing I did as part of guu’s post. This:

## install the new libdrm
wget https://dri.freedesktop.org/libdrm/libdrm-2.4.100.tar.bz2
tar jxvf  libdrm-2.4.100.tar.bz2
cd libdrm-2.4.100
./configure --libdir=/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf
make
sudo make install

I hadn’t done that in my other attempts. I had just rebuilt mesa, and messed a bit with the xorg conf, but I put the conf back to it’s original state, and while the various mesa builds weren’t getting me a more accelerated display, the launcher still worked, etc.

So now I’m wondering what installing the “new libdrm” actually did, and if I can somehow undo it and go back to what I had before. Is this something I can downgrade as described in you method, @Joao_Manoel? (And thanks for putting in the effort and time to figure that out because it sounds like it will be really useful!)

I took a look at the directory that the libdrm stuff was targeting, and based on the timestamps I’m assuming that these are the files it replaced when I built the 2.4 version:

I’m not sure if it changed files in other locations (like config files, etc.), but these files all appeared at the time I did that build. I also found packages that seem to match: libdrm-freedreno1, libdrm-amdgpu1, libdrm-radeon1, libdrm-nouveau2, libdrm2. The only thing I couldn’t find a reference to was libkms. I’ll wait to try downgrading these until I verify that rolling back the udev version doesn’t help.

I’m thinking I probably can’t hurt my system any worse, so I’ll try downgrading libudev and udev as described, and see if that helps. I poked around and saw there is a libdrm2 package in debian, but there are also tons of other packages like it with various names. Hopefully that might be a way out of my problem, to revert whatever is going on with the version I installed from that tarball in guu’s post? I’m open to suggestions, and appreciate the help! In the mean time I’ll try rolling back udev and see if that helps. Thanks!

[adcockm]

Figured it might be worth documenting this…

sudo apt install libudev1=232-25+deb9u11 showed this before completing:

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  bubblewrap eject enchant exfat-fuse exfat-utils gdisk gir1.2-ibus-1.0
  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-x klibc-utils libatasmart4
  libblockdev-crypto2 libblockdev-fs2 libblockdev-loop2 libblockdev-part-err2
  libblockdev-part2 libblockdev-swap2 libblockdev-utils2 libblockdev2
  libenchant1c2a libibus-1.0-5 libibus-1.0-dev libimobiledevice6
  libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 libklibc libntfs-3g883 libparted-fs-resize0
  libsndio-dev libudisks2-0 libupower-glib3 libusbmuxd4 libvolume-key1
  libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 linux-base ntfs-3g pigz read-edid squashfs-tools
  usbmuxd x11-apps x11-session-utils xdg-dbus-proxy xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi
  xfonts-scalable zenity zenity-common
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  bluez i2c-tools initramfs-tools initramfs-tools-core libsdl2-dev
  libsdl2-gfx-dev libsdl2-image-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev libsdl2-net-dev
  libsdl2-ttf-dev libu2f-udev libudev-dev linux-image-4.19.0-6-armmp
  linux-image-4.9.0-4-armmp linux-image-armmp media-player-info snapd udev
  udisks2 upower xorg xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all
  xserver-xorg-input-libinput xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-video-all
  xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
  xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-vesa
The following packages will be DOWNGRADED:
  libudev1
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 downgraded, 33 to remove and 4 not upgraded.

The udev package didn’t remove anything besides udev. Also, both mentioned a bunch of packages to autoremove, but I haven’t done that.

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  bubblewrap eject enchant exfat-fuse exfat-utils gdisk gir1.2-ibus-1.0
  gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-x klibc-utils libatasmart4
  libblockdev-crypto2 libblockdev-fs2 libblockdev-loop2 libblockdev-part-err2
  libblockdev-part2 libblockdev-swap2 libblockdev-utils2 libblockdev2
  libenchant1c2a libibus-1.0-5 libibus-1.0-dev libimobiledevice6
  libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 libklibc libntfs-3g883 libparted-fs-resize0
  libsndio-dev libudisks2-0 libupower-glib3 libusbmuxd4 libvolume-key1
  libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 linux-base ntfs-3g pigz read-edid squashfs-tools
  usbmuxd x11-apps x11-session-utils xdg-dbus-proxy xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi
  xfonts-scalable zenity zenity-common
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.

and… as I expected, the results are the same as before since I seem to be suffering the adverse effects of updating that libdrm stuff. The funny thing is, the log they suggest checking is actually the log that contains this message!

[  5377.440] (EE) fbturbo: module ABI major version (23) doesn't match the server's version (24)
[  5377.440] (EE) Failed to load module "fbturbo" (module requirement mismatch, 0)
[  5377.440] (EE) No drivers available.
[  5377.440] (EE) 
Fatal server error:
[  5377.440] (EE) no screens found(EE) 
[  5377.440] (EE) 
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
	 at http://wiki.x.org
 for help. 
[  5377.440] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/home/cpi/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[  5377.440] (EE) 
[  5377.491] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

[adcockm]

Thinking I was on the right track, I think I might have shot myself in the foot… I decided to try to down grade the drm libs in a similar way. I’ve attached a log of what I did.

Since I’m still getting the same errors in the Xorg conf, I didn’t solve anything. there (and the launcher doesn’t run, etc.) But I also inadvertently uninstalled lots of packages when I removed these. On the plus side, I guess I have the log so I know what I had installed, but at this point I’m guessing what I’ve got is a lost cause, and I should next just spend time archiving and documenting as much as I can, and hopefully be able to recreate some of what I have on a new clean card.

I wish there was a way to easily mount the filesystem on the card to make archiving easier. But I’m probably just going to tar.gz a bunch of stuff and then put it on the new card.

cpi@clockworkpi:~$ sudo apt install libdrm2=2.4.74-1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  bubblewrap ca-certificates-java chromium-sandbox csound-data
  default-jdk-headless default-jre-headless eject enchant exfat-fuse
  exfat-utils fonts-dejavu-extra fonts-noto-core fonts-noto-hinted
  fonts-noto-ui-core fonts-roboto-hinted fonts-roboto-unhinted gdisk
  gir1.2-atspi-2.0 gir1.2-ibus-1.0 gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-x
  hunspell-en-us java-common klibc-utils kodi-repository-kodi kwayland-data
  libaa1 libaribb24-0 libass9 libatasmart4 libatk-bridge2.0-dev
  libatspi2.0-dev libavc1394-0 libavfilter7 libbasicusageenvironment1
  libblockdev-crypto2 libblockdev-fs2 libblockdev-loop2 libblockdev-part-err2
  libblockdev-part2 libblockdev-swap2 libblockdev-utils2 libblockdev2
  libbluetooth3 libbrotli1 libbs2b0 libbulletml0v5 libcaca-dev libccd2
  libcddb2 libcdio-cdda2 libcdio-paranoia2 libcdio18 libcec4 libcrossguid0
  libdc1394-22 libdmx-dev libdmx1 libdrm-common libdrm-etnaviv1 libdrm-exynos1
  libdrm-omap1 libdrm-tegra0 libdv4 libdvbpsi10 libdvdnav4 libdvdread4
  libebml4v5 libenca0 libenchant1c2a libfam0 libflac-dev libflite1
  libfontenc-dev libfontenc1 libfs-dev libfs6 libgles1 libgles2 libgles2-mesa
  libglvnd0 libgpgmepp6 libgphobos76 libgraphene-1.0-0 libgroupsock8
  libhfstospell10 libhunspell-1.7-0 libhyphen0 libibus-1.0-5 libibus-1.0-dev
  libiec61883-0 libimagequant0 libimobiledevice6 libinput-bin libinput10
  libixml10 libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 libjs-iscroll libkate1 libkf5archive5
  libkf5auth-data libkf5codecs-data libkf5codecs5 libkf5completion-data
  libkf5config-bin libkf5config-data libkf5configcore5
  libkf5configwidgets-data libkf5coreaddons-data libkf5coreaddons5
  libkf5dbusaddons-bin libkf5dbusaddons-data libkf5doctools5 libkf5i18n-data
  libkf5i18n5 libkf5iconthemes-data libkf5itemviews-data libkf5jobwidgets-data
  libkf5kiontlm5 libkf5notifications-data libkf5service-data libkf5solid5-data
  libkf5sonnet5-data libkf5sonnetcore5 libkf5textwidgets-data
  libkf5wallet-data libkf5widgetsaddons-data libkf5windowsystem-data libklibc
  liblilv-0-0 liblivemedia64 liblo7 liblua5.2-0 libmatroska6v5 libmicrodns0
  libmicrohttpd12 libmikmod-config libmikmod-dev libminizip1 libmpeg2-4
  libmtdev1 libmtp-common libmtp-runtime libmtp9 libmysofa0 libnfs12 libnorm1
  libntfs-3g883 libode8 libopengl0 libopenmpt-modplug1 liborc-0.4-dev
  liborc-0.4-dev-bin libp8-platform2 libparted-fs-resize0 libpciaccess-dev
  libpciaccess0 libpgm-5.2-0 libplacebo7 libplist3 libpostproc55
  libprotobuf-lite17 libpugixml1v5 libqapt3 libqt5positioning5 libqt5script5
  libqt5sensors5 libqt5sql5 libqt5sql5-sqlite libqt5test5 libqt5texttospeech5
  libqt5webchannel5 libqt5xml5 libraw1394-11 libre2-5 libresid-builder0c2a
  libretro-core-info librtaudio6 librtmidi4 librubberband2 libserd-0-0
  libset-scalar-perl libsfml-audio2.5 libsfml-network2.5 libsfml-system2.5
  libsidplay2 libslang2-dev libsndio-dev libsodium23 libsord-0-0
  libspatialaudio0 libsratom-0-0 libstk-4.5.0 libswscale4 libswscale5
  libtinyxml2.6.2v5 libudisks2-0 libupnp13 libupower-glib3
  libusageenvironment3 libusbmuxd4 libva-wayland2 libvidstab1.1 libvoikko1
  libvolume-key1 libvorbisidec1 libwacom-bin libwacom-common libwacom2
  libwebp-dev libwebpdemux2 libwoff1 libxaw7-dev libxcb-xv0 libxfont-dev
  libxfont2 libxkbcommon-dev libxkbfile-dev libxkbfile1 libxmu-dev
  libxmu-headers libxmuu-dev libxres-dev libxres1 libxss-dev libxtst-dev
  libxv-dev libxv1 libxvmc-dev libxvmc1 libzmq5 linux-base mame-data
  mu-cade-data ntfs-3g openjdk-11-jdk-headless openjdk-11-jre-headless
  parsec47-data pigz python-olefile python-pil python-sip python3-pyxattr
  python3-sip qt5-qmake qt5-qmake-bin read-edid retroarch-assets rrootage-data
  rtmpdump sonnet-plugins squashfs-tools stk titanion-data torus-trooper-data
  tumiki-fighters-data usbmuxd vlc-data vlc-plugin-base x11-apps
  x11-session-utils x11-xkb-utils x11proto-bigreqs-dev x11proto-dmx-dev
  x11proto-fonts-dev x11proto-gl-dev x11proto-record-dev x11proto-resource-dev
  x11proto-scrnsaver-dev x11proto-video-dev x11proto-xcmisc-dev
  x11proto-xf86bigfont-dev x11proto-xf86dri-dev xdg-dbus-proxy xfonts-100dpi
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  xserver-common youtube-dl zenity-common
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
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  gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-1.0 gstreamer-qapt gstreamer0.10-qapt
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  kwayland-integration libatk-wrapper-java libatk-wrapper-java-jni
  libavdevice58 libcsound64-6.0 libdbusmenu-qt5-2 libdirectfb-1.7-7
  libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm-dev libegl-mesa0 libegl1 libegl1-mesa libegl1-mesa-dev
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  libkf5kiocore5 libkf5kiowidgets5 libkf5notifications5 libkf5service-bin
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  libkf5wallet-bin libkf5wallet5 libkf5waylandclient5 libkf5widgetsaddons5
  libkf5windowsystem5 libkwalletbackend5-5 libphonon4qt5-4 libpolkit-qt5-1-1
  libqapt3-runtime libqt5designer5 libqt5gui5 libqt5help5 libqt5opengl5
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  libqt5waylandclient5 libqt5waylandcompositor5 libqt5webkit5 libqt5widgets5
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  mesa-vdpau-drivers mplayer mpv mu-cade openjdk-11-jdk openjdk-11-jre
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  qml-module-qtquick2 qt5-default qt5-gtk-platformtheme qtbase5-dev qtwayland5
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cpi@clockworkpi:~$ sudo apt install libdrm-freedreno1=2.4.74-1 libdrm-amdgpu1=2.4.74-1 libdrm-radeon1=2.4.74-1 libdrm-nouveau2=2.4.74-1
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cpi@clockworkpi:~$

[Joao_Manoel]

I think in your stage would be easier for you to just make backup, and flash a new image.

If you still want to look for a solution, we can try to help because the information will be useful in the future as well.

Xorg with lima, launchers etc are the last thing to work in your system right now. Before it Mesa needs to work properly. For it, you don’t need Xorg, I actually don’t have Xorg installed in my system. I’m running Retroarch straight from terminal with KMS and lima support. To try to understand what is happening you could try the following:

Check if lima is being loaded in kernel:

dmesg | grep lima
dmesg | grep sun4i

Post here what you get from both commands

So, for now I recommend you to try kmscube. kmscube is a debug tool from mesa to check mesa, kms, egl, gbm. If you get it working properly we can go to try to fix x11 and launchers after.

So clone kmscube from repository:

git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/kmscube

Enter in directory:

cd kmscube

configure:

./autogen.sh

compile it:

make -j4

run the app:

./kmscube

Post here what you get

[r043v]

[  3631.427] (EE) fbturbo: module ABI major version (23) doesn't match the server's version (24)

you need recompile fbturbo if you want use it

try remove your xorg conf file to drop out fbturbo stuff and let xorg autodetect things