13:25 <TuxJobs> So, out of morbid curiosity, I wanted to check out how badly the emulators butcher the classic console games on LibreELEC/Kodi/RPI4, so I downloaded a bunch of them from the in-Kodi repository thing. They installed without errors, but since then, I've been unable to make any of them start. If I go to them in the list of add-ons, they just have the "Run" icon disabled/greyed out. Some of them even have the "Configure" icon disabled/greyed out. And if I

13:25 <TuxJobs> add them as a favourite and then try to run them from the "start screen", they say that something went wrong and that I should "check the log". What log? Why don't any of the emulators start?

13:48 <chewitt> You normally "play" a game ROM, which then prompts you to select an emulator to run it under, and then things start

13:49 <chewitt> so it's not "select an emulator and then load a game ROM"

13:50 <chewitt> The internet archive add-on is a reasonable front-end for things

13:50 <chewitt> my kids seem to manage to find old SNES games to spend hours on via that

14:13 <TuxJobs> Hmm... very cryptic interface.

14:16 <TuxJobs> chewitt: When I go to the "Games" option (in which I've made sure to set up the path where I put my various ROMs), it appears empty, as if it doesn't recognize the ROM files, so that can't be it.

14:17 <TuxJobs> I added a few for NES, SNES, Mega Drive and Nintendo 64 (same as the emulators I added).

14:18 <TuxJobs> It makes me kind of chuckle in despair that literally *everything* always is like this. Just makes no sense/is broken/undocumented/buggy/cryptic...

14:57 <TuxJobs> The (nonsensical to me) error in the log is: "error <general>: Libdvd: Can't stat \n error <general>: Libdvd: Could not open \n error <general>: Libdvd: vm: failed to open/read the DVD \n error <general>: Error on dvdnav_open \n error <general>: CVideoPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening []"

15:19 <TuxJobs> Any idea what's wrong? I don't want to waste a ton of time and energy on this. I just wanted to see how badly it runs.

15:43 <AiCaramba> Good morning!

18:45 <TuxJobs> Screw it. Not worth all the wasted time and energy. I know it's going to suck anyway. I'll just use it for videos.

18:57 <AiCaramba> hello, i am cross compiling and i am getting this error: toolchain/aarch64-libreelec-linux-gnu/sysroot/usr/lib/libxkbcommon.so: error adding symbols: file in wrong format

18:57 <AiCaramba> it insists on using my host system LD which is no good.