FAQ Complaints Stupid Mistakes

I quickly wrote this. A lot of these things you will not encounter if you follow the guides exactly. If you have troubles post on the raspberry pi forum post : http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=83009

I just see a white dot on the screen.

Mount the rootfs. Navigate to root/.emulationstation . open es_log.txt and see what the output is. it should give you a good idea what is wrong. If it can not find roms check es_systems.cfg in the same folder. Make sure the extensions are added. Read the top text to make sure you make the right decisions.

The gba emulator is not working.

Mount the rootfs. Add the gba_bios.bin to /usr/share/emulators/gba.

My controller does not work.

The only input drivers current installed are js and xpad, if you need anything else you will have to customise the kernel config and add it.

My keyboard does not work.

Any USB keyboard should work fine, but the only locales installed are US and UK. You can fix this easily enough, see the STRIP_LOCALES option in the buildroot config.

How to use mksdcard script?

heres the command shorthand:

cd rpi-emulator-buildroot
board/raspberrypi/mksdcard dev/sdx/