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Attract-Mode Support => General => Topic started by: fumblingwisdom on December 02, 2018, 11:06:56 AM

Title: Retropie won't boot into Attract mode...
Post by: fumblingwisdom on December 02, 2018, 11:06:56 AM

When I start my retropie, I'm taken to the terminal and need to type "attract' to launch attract mode...

Where do I go and what do I have to do so that it will boot into attract mode on it's own ? or even emulation station, I'm not picky. I would just like to be able to use it without having a keyboard around...

Thanks alot !

Title: Re: Retropie won't boot into Attract mode...
Post by: keilmillerjr on December 02, 2018, 11:43:35 AM

/etc/rc.local

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/linux/usage/rc-local.md

Title: Re: Retropie won't boot into Attract mode...
Post by: fumblingwisdom on December 02, 2018, 12:14:35 PM

I'm a total newb and would hate to mess up this build permanently ...

So I would do this from the terminal with commands ? Does anyone no specially what I would write ?

Isn't there a word document I would edit instead ? Thanks again

Title: Re: Retropie won't boot into Attract mode...
Post by: keilmillerjr on December 02, 2018, 02:43:02 PM

From the terminal:

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$ sudo nano /etc/rc.local
Note the commands to exit and such at the bottom of the terminal window. control + q will ask if you want to save the buffer to file.

You need to comment out with a hash, remove or modify the part where you I assume would see a bit about emulation station. I assume it would be in this file, but there is technically more than one way of starting an application on boot. If you don’t see it, also check /home/pi/.bashrc.

You could probably just add the word attract. Double ampersands are used to execute more than one thing, so take note of that. If it does not work, you might have to use an absolute path. But I don’t see why it shouldn’t. Sorry I can not give you a 100% answer because I do not have your setup.

Reboot your pi:

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$ sudo reboot

Title: Re: Retropie won't boot into Attract mode...
Post by: Favdeacon on December 02, 2018, 10:25:18 PM

Quote from: keilmillerjr on December 02, 2018, 02:43:02 PM

From the terminal:

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$ sudo nano /etc/rc.local
Note the commands to exit and such at the bottom of the terminal window. control + q will ask if you want to save the buffer to file.

Isn't that control+x? It is at least on my Retropie 4.4 (based on Debian Stretch). Control + x just says "XON ignored, mumble mumble".

Title: Re: Retropie won't boot into Attract mode...
Post by: keilmillerjr on December 03, 2018, 01:29:00 AM

Quote from: Favdeacon on December 02, 2018, 10:25:18 PM

Quote from: keilmillerjr on December 02, 2018, 02:43:02 PM

From the terminal:

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$ sudo nano /etc/rc.local
Note the commands to exit and such at the bottom of the terminal window. control + q will ask if you want to save the buffer to file.

Isn't that control+x? It is at least on my Retropie 4.4 (based on Debian Stretch). Control + x just says "XON ignored, mumble mumble".

Probably. It says what options are. I just wasn’t sure if he knew what the character represented by ^ meant.

Title: Re: Retropie won't boot into Attract mode...
Post by: kent79 on December 03, 2018, 01:37:32 AM

You may refer my guide  :)
http://forum.attractmode.org/index.php?topic=2275.0