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    No Sound in RP4

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    raspberry pi 4audio outputno sound issues
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    • M
      mat
      last edited by mat

      Well I just tried that and set it to "force sound" through HDMI, I did a restart on the system and it boots up, then restarted to a blank/pinkish screen with nothing.

      I never had to do that before.

      So now I got to make a whole new image copy again

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      • mituM
        mitu Global Moderator
        last edited by

        Did you overclock your PI ?

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          mat
          last edited by

          Not that I know of, does it come overclocked already?

          I bought it new from a UK shop in Aug 2019, it stayed in it's box until I tried LAKKA one day just to see how it was, didn't last long since I had the wifi bug freeze lakka all the time.

          So the pi4 sat again till this morning when I figured I would try it with a weekly build of Pie.

          I live in the U.S., my TV is from 2007, 720p, viewsonic. Never had issues with the old Pie3.

          So I am doing a fresh image as I type this, currently loading the roms.

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          • DarksaviorD
            Darksavior @mat
            last edited by Darksavior

            @mat Try another hdmi cable. I have mine on the microhdmi port next to the usb-c power port. “hdmi 0"

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              mat
              last edited by

              @Darksavior Did that earlier, still nothing. Everytime I set it to HDM sound in ANY menu, I reboot and it does the bootup for a few seconds, then reboots again to a blank screen.

              So I don't think setting sound through HDMI setting is the way to go of any kind.

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              • mituM
                mitu Global Moderator
                last edited by mitu

                You can force the sound on HDMI also from the command line:

                sudo amixer cset numid=3 2
                

                though I would also check the cable. No sound and video artifacts when enabling it sounds (!) a bit suspicious.

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                  mat
                  last edited by

                  That worked @mitu, thank you.

                  Now I tried to play all the installed systems and every game I play, there is about 1sec lag from my button presses to screen action, I.E. castlevania whipping, jumps.

                  All systems, even mame.

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                  • mituM
                    mitu Global Moderator
                    last edited by

                    Do you have a 4k tv ? What's the output of running

                    tvservice -s
                    
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                    • M
                      mat
                      last edited by

                      1080P

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                      • quicksilverQ
                        quicksilver @mat
                        last edited by

                        @mat see if your TV has a game mode setting.

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                          mat
                          last edited by

                          I have a "AV Mode" on the menu that lists game, never used it though, is that what I want?

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                            mat
                            last edited by

                            The game mode help. 4 tvs in my house and only 1 works with it.

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