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    No sound in ports

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      Zering
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      Hi guys,

      Ever since running a RetroPie-Setup script update a couple of weeks ago, I've been experiencing issues with a variety of ports, namely lzdoom, tyrquake, ioquake3, and iortcw (which I understand is not part of the official distribution, however I think the issue isn't with individual ports). The issue is that I am getting no sound whatsoever out of those cores. No music, no sound effects, nothing.
      As libretro ports seem to work fine (lr-prboom, lr-tyrquake), my feeling is that the update broke something that the other ports rely on.

      Any ideas guys?

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        G30FF
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        @zering Had the same problem today. I was able to fix it thanks to another forum post here. The fix is to create a new file in /home/pi called .alsoftrc, with the following content:

        [alsa]
        mmap = false
        

        I did that, and sound came back without a problem.

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          Zering @G30FF
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          @g30ff Indeed, that did the trick. Not sure how or why but I've been enjoying shooting red gargoyles out of the sky in Heretic for the last ten minutes - and even better now I can hear it too! Thanks for the fix.

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          • DavidDraperD
            DavidDraper @Zering
            last edited by DavidDraper

            @zering Does that fix sound in emulation station? I did the previously posted trick and got sound back in my roms but still no sound in ES.

            David

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              Zering @DavidDraper
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              @daviddraper I can't say, I don't have sound in ES normally.

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              • DavidDraperD
                DavidDraper @Zering
                last edited by

                @zering its subtle. Back when i had sound there was a quiet click when I scrolled through roms in the system view. Not a big deal at all but a nice touch.

                Dave

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                • mituM
                  mitu Global Moderator
                  last edited by

                  Check if you haven't got PulseAudio installed. If you go into the Audio settings in RetroPie - does it show PulseAudio at the top ?

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