Audio issues after latest Raspbian updates (June 2020)
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@mitu - Ok, several things clicked there that I had no idea how they worked so I really appreciate the layman's explanation.
I read a post once to the effect that RetroPie users are "protected" from really understanding how things work. I can't completely disagree with that statement but on the other hand that's part of the "magic" of RetroPie.
You can get things up and running fairly easy and then go back and dig in a bit deeper to fine tune settings. There's so many aspects of RetroPie that probably are very simplistic but I learn new things all the time. I honestly never used Linux in any capacity until RetroPie. Anyway I usually don't update the underlying OS with each new RetroPie release and basically use them as is but I truly appreciate the opportunities to learn new things.
To the effect of sounding cheesy, in a world that's a bit crazy right now and could use more good, I do thank the good lord of folks like you. You may have been around much longer than I know or realize but you just seemed to come out of nowhere and took RetroPie by storm knowing it inside and out. It's always at the back of my thoughts when reading your posts. It probably always will be no matter what is said, I guess there's something to say for first impressions. ;)
You do have an incredible technical talent but also the perfect mindset and temperament to be a natural moderator beyond the basic task of some typical terms of service violation, unacceptable behavior, or illegal ROM link.
One of my favorite sayings is "Common sense, so rare it's a superpower." :)
Most can't set aside biases, pride or petty disagreements to focus on what truly constitutes "gold standard" moderation which isn't always about being the "smartest" member that knows the most in the community.
I've yet to genuinely like someone purely based on knowledge alone. Even if they are the leading-global-authority-go-to-go-guy that knows it all. A skill that's as equally, if not more, important is connecting and helping others without making them feel inferior. Making them feel like they are part of a community. It leaves a much more powerful and forever lasting impact.
Knowing when to let marginal conversations play out and being impartial to all members equally. Elevating conversations to bring about the best conclusion or sometimes shooting the breeze with some small talk.
In this day and age of phones and social media along with less and less face-to-face real human contact many people forget that being social is a skill set that needs to be practiced to stay good. Lord knows I do my fair share at small pub's and the like. Anyway basically exercising good judgement or common sense to foster, promote and grow a community culture. It's an enormous responsibility really.
Anyway I may say it often but I don't think it can be said enough as I've always been impressed with how you handle most situations and think you're a class act and a true asset to the community working the back-end and just as often, if not more, the front-end.
I just wanted to say THANKS, good sir, for all you do and have a great weekend. As that beer commercial goes... "This Bud's for you!" ...errr... whatever the beer of choice is on that side of the pond! ;)
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Dude, at least pour the guy a real ale. When I go over there I like a good Scottish 80 myself.
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@Riverstorm said in Audio issues after latest Raspbian updates:
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I just wanted to say THANKS, good sir, for all you do and have a great weekend. As that beer commercial goes... "This Bud's for you!" ...errr... whatever the beer of choice is on that side of the pond! ;)Thank for the - more than - kind words.
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@VictimRLSH - lol...I apologize for my shortsightedness I should buy the man a proper drink and not just a pint! ;) I've never been but my wife has several times and wants to go as a family, which with the current state of affairs will probably be a while. I guess you could say I'm dead chuffed about that. I hope I used that properly I just learned it the other night on TV. I love their slang over there. Ok fellas, have a super weekend, heading home now to spend some time with the fam! ;)
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I've just upgraded my 3B+ to Buster (it went exactly in this manner: https://djangocas.dev/blog/upgrade-existing-jessie-to-buster-without-re-image/ ), and this, of course, happened - the above fix, with the addition to cmdline.txt, did restore the sound.
(Incidentally, I had the sound in startx, even before the attempts to fix it in Retropie).
However, the volume still always resets to 0 in EmuStation, and the fix seems to only work sometimes - one time EmuStation will click when scrolling through titles, other times it will stay quiet.
Speaker-test from the command line, however, now always seems to make its noise properly.
(By the way, I've noticed that while the regular binary for EmuStation is from June, the one for EmuStation dev. version 2.10 is still from April - I'll check if this influences the sound fix. I normally use the dev. version, I switched to the regular for the sound fix).
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Adding: hah, "funnily" enough, now EmuStation's sound is crackling, wobbly, and it also slowns down the emulators to the point that after updating to Buster, RP has become just unusable. :|
EmuStation 2.10 dev acts in the same manner, no matter what devices are selected in the menu - HDMI, PCM, ALSA, both...
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@BazzCatt that sounds like another issue.
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@BazzCatt This is what was happening to me. Check alsamixer and see what your default sound device is. I found a Bluetooth utility I installed into the desktop to facilitate file transfers also installed Pulseaudio and completely jacked up my sound in the same manner. I had to purge pulseaudio to remedy the problem (see above post).
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This should fix the problem:
sudo rpi-update 8d64ec7016906fb1f2bbe937dd7401705c5acf33
Newer firmwares makes troubles with sound on Raspbian Buster.
Use that command on your own risk. -
@Sid1968 said in Audio issues after latest Raspbian updates:
sudo rpi-update 8d64ec7016906fb1f2bbe937dd7401705c5acf33
Using
rpi-updateis not recommended for normal updates. While this might get you a firmware version before the changes in the audio configuration, any updates for OS updates including kernel/firmware - viaapt- will overwrite it.
I strongly advice against this approach.Newer firmwares makes troubles with sound on Raspbian Buster.
Hence the topic at hand. If you want to revert to the previous audio configuration, you can modify
cmdline.txtas outlined in the first post. -
@mitu The problem is that the "normal" update command installs a new firmware. That causes the sound issues. My command restores an older version. For me it works well. But... that should everyone decide for themselves.
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@Sid1968 as said in the topic starter, you can get back to your previous configuration without downgrading anything. There's no reason to use
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@mitu Ok i agree. :-)
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@mitu Is it possible to prevent this error message to appear again by reverting back to previous configuration ?
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@Yobiwan Yes, but I wouldn't recommend that. You have the new settings explained in the first port, once you set them, you shouldn't get any error.
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@mitu OK thanks ! i'm out of data for this month (deep countryside!) so in a few days I will try updating all of that.
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@mitu, Hi, I am running my Raspberry Pi 3b+ with an audio jack and I've been having sound problems as mentioned in this post (no audio from games, although I can verify my computer's audio works by running an mp3 file on omxplayer). The errors I've been getting when trying to change my audio settings in emulation station is "lvl0: VolumeControl::init() - Failed to attach to default card". I followed all the steps and configured the audio in the menu as you suggested. But, still hasn't solved anything, unfortunately.
I've been looking through blog posts all day trying to fix this, but it hasn't been working. If you'd like me to make a new post and list my system specs and whatnot, please let me know, and thank you.
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@amansur Nvm, I gave up and just decided to reboot everything on the pre-installed image. For those that manually installed and are having trouble like I was and nothing seemed to be working, just do that. My recommendation.
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Error message has gone, ingame audio is back, but my intro video has no audio anymore...
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@Yobiwan Please open a separate topic and add your system info, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.
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