On-board audio disabled or not present

krullbeast

Pi Model or other hardware: 4b
Power Supply used: adafruit dual usb battery bank
RetroPie Version Used : retropie-buster-4.7.1-rpi4_400.img
Built From: Pre made SD Image on RetroPie website
USB Devices connected: Uctronics 5 inch led screen
Controller used: Magicsee R1

I'm trying to install the adafruit speaker bonnet and when I go into Audio in the retropie menu, it is giving me the "on-board audio disabled or not present" message.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to get the Hat working on a pi4b? I appreciate any advice. I can't use the speaker set up i had ( a Canz speaker into the pi's headphone jack) because it shuts off after inactivity eventhough it has a manual on/off switch, and it's enclosed in my portable setup. I have used the speaker bonnet before on another project (pi3b) and it works great! Can the pi4b utilize the speaker bonnet/hat?

Thank you for any advice!

krullbeast

@krullbeast i tried installing and uninstalling pulseaudio,. that didn't work. i don't know why it WOULD have, but i saw it work for some people. i also tried setting the audio in emulation station to master, but it resets to 0 when i exit out. I assume this is because i somehow have the on-board audio disabled now. I've tried the guide at https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Sound-Issues/ to no avail. and i have installed the script it says it requires from the pinout page here https://pinout.xyz/pinout/speaker_bonnet my soundcard settings look like this
aplay -L
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
jack
JACK Audio Connection Kit
pulse
PulseAudio Sound Server
speakerbonnet
dmixer
softvol
default
output
sysdefault:CARD=sndrpihifiberry
snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac, HifiBerry DAC HiFi pcm5102a-hifi-0
Default Audio Device
dmix:CARD=sndrpihifiberry,DEV=0
snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac, HifiBerry DAC HiFi pcm5102a-hifi-0
Direct sample mixing device
dsnoop:CARD=sndrpihifiberry,DEV=0
snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac, HifiBerry DAC HiFi pcm5102a-hifi-0
Direct sample snooping device
hw:CARD=sndrpihifiberry,DEV=0
snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac, HifiBerry DAC HiFi pcm5102a-hifi-0
Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=sndrpihifiberry,DEV=0
snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac, HifiBerry DAC HiFi pcm5102a-hifi-0
Hardware device with all software conversions
usbstream:CARD=sndrpihifiberry
snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac
USB Stream Output

mitu

@krullbeast said in On-board audio disabled or not present:

I'm trying to install the adafruit speaker bonnet and when I go into Audio in the retropie menu, it is giving me the "on-board audio disabled or not present" message.

That's normal, since the Audio setting will only work with the on-board audio. If you modified the /boot/config.txt file and disabled the on-board audio, then the message is correct.

sysdefault:CARD=sndrpihifiberry

What does

amixer scontrols device=sndrpihifiberry

show ?
You need to find out the mixer's name for your card and fill in the AudioDevice option in EmulationStation's configuration. Setting the AudioCard to default is ok.

krullbeast

@mitu thank you for the feedback!
it says that doesn't exist..could i ask how do i find out the mixer's name of my card? i apologize, i'm not very good at linux yet..i'm trying.
after i do find it, can i just launch ES and set it under the start menu settings? i'll try default in the meantime.

I really appreciate the help!

mitu

@krullbeast said in On-board audio disabled or not present:

it says that doesn't exist..could i ask how do i find out the mixer's name of my card? i apologize, i'm not very good at linux yet..i'm trying.

Run the command I posted and look at the output. You can also run alsamixer and look for the name of the mixer, it's shown under the volume slider.

krullbeast

@mitu when i type these commands and press enter here is what i get..

pi@barreltoo:~ $ alsamixer
cannot open mixer: No such file or directory
pi@barreltoo:~ $ amixer scontrols device=sndrpihifiberry
amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such file or directory
pi@barreltoo:~ $

krullbeast

@mitu this is part of my config...do you think anything here could be causing the speaker bonnet not to play? thank you if you have any ideas..

# Uncomment some or all of these to enable the optional hardware interfaces
#dtparam=i2c_arm=on
dtparam=i2s=on
#dtparam=spi=on

# Uncomment this to enable infrared communication.
#dtoverlay=gpio-ir,gpio_pin=17
#dtoverlay=gpio-ir-tx,gpio_pin=18

# Additional overlays and parameters are documented /boot/overlays/README

# Enable audio (loads snd_bcm2835)
#dtparam=audio=on
dtparam=audio=off
dtoverlay=hifiberry-dac
dtoverlay=i2s-mmap

[pi4]
# Enable DRM VC4 V3D driver on top of the dispmanx display stack
dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d
max_framebuffers=2

[all]
#dtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3d
#overscan_scale=1

# Disable under-voltage warning
avoid_warnings=1

dtoverlay=hifiberry-dac
dtoverlay=i2s-mmap

mitu

@krullbeast said in On-board audio disabled or not present:

pi@barreltoo:~ $ alsamixer
cannot open mixer: No such file or directory

Looks like the card/mixer is not found. If you have a $HOME/.asoundrc file, remove it. Run

aplay -l

and post the output (use code tags to surround the output - ``` ).

krullbeast

@mitu how can i check if i have that $HOME file? thank you for your input!! here is my aplay result

pi@barreltoo:~ $ aplay -L
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
jack
    JACK Audio Connection Kit
pulse
    PulseAudio Sound Server
speakerbonnet
dmixer
softvol
default
output
sysdefault:CARD=sndrpihifiberry
    snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac, HifiBerry DAC HiFi pcm5102a-hifi-0
    Default Audio Device
dmix:CARD=sndrpihifiberry,DEV=0
    snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac, HifiBerry DAC HiFi pcm5102a-hifi-0
    Direct sample mixing device
dsnoop:CARD=sndrpihifiberry,DEV=0
    snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac, HifiBerry DAC HiFi pcm5102a-hifi-0
    Direct sample snooping device
hw:CARD=sndrpihifiberry,DEV=0
    snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac, HifiBerry DAC HiFi pcm5102a-hifi-0
    Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=sndrpihifiberry,DEV=0
    snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac, HifiBerry DAC HiFi pcm5102a-hifi-0
    Hardware device with all software conversions
usbstream:CARD=sndrpihifiberry
    snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac
    USB Stream Output

krullbeast

@mitu said in On-board audio disabled or not present:

$HOME/.asoundrc

how do I remove this file? I came up with this

pi@barreltoo:~ $ sudo nano $HOME/.asoundrc
  GNU nano 3.2                                                               /home/pi/.asoundrc

pcm.!default {
  type asym
  playback.pcm {
    type plug
    slave.pcm "output"
  }
  capture.pcm {
    type plug
    slave.pcm "input"
  }
}
pcm.output {
  type hw
  card 1
}
ctl.!default {
  type hw
  card 1
}

mitu

@krullbeast said in On-board audio disabled or not present:

@mitu how can i check if i have that $HOME file? thank you for your input!! here is my aplay result

No, that's tha aplay -L (uppercase l (ell)). The command I was asking is aplay -l (lowercase L). Remove or rename the .asoundrc file and try again running the commands I posted earlier (amixer ... and alsamixer).

krullbeast

@mitu said in On-board audio disabled or not present:

.asoundrc

ok!
this time it let me in to the mixer!!

krullbeast

@mitu here is my aplay lowercase l

pi@barreltoo:~ $ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: sndrpihifiberry [snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac], device 0: HifiBerry DAC HiFi pcm5102a-hifi-0 [HifiBerry DAC HiFi pcm5102a-hifi-0]
  Subdevices: 0/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

mitu

Based on the output, you'll need to choose Default as Audio Card and PCM as Audio device in EmulationStation.

krullbeast

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