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    Yet another "lvl0: VolumeControl::init() - Failed to find mixer elements" error help request (sorry; please read).

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      psavas @mitu
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      @mitu I tried several of the other Audio Device settings; Master is the only one that sets the system volume to 100%, but I still am not getting any audio.

      I am using a 7" display with built-in speakers connected over HDMI (using HDMI 0 on the Pi4).

      pete

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      • mituM
        mitu Global Moderator
        last edited by

        Post the output of the following commands:

        aplay -l
        amixer scontents -c 1
        amixer scontents -c 0
        
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          psavas @mitu
          last edited by

          @mitu
          From aplay -l:

          **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
          card 0: b1 [bcm2835 HDMI 1], device 0: bcm2835 HDMI 1 [bcm2835 HDMI 1]
            Subdevices: 4/4
            Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
            Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
            Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
            Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
          card 1: Headphones [bcm2835 Headphones], device 0: bcm2835 Headphones [bcm2835 Headphones]
            Subdevices: 4/4
            Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
            Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
            Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
            Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
          

          From amixer contents -c 1:

          Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
            Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
            Playback channels: Mono
            Limits: Playback -10239 - 400
            Mono: Playback 0 [96%] [0.00dB] [on]
          

          From amixer contents -c 0:

          Simple mixer control 'HDMI',0
            Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined
            Playback channels: Mono
            Limits: Playback -10239 - 400
            Mono: Playback 0 [96%] [0.00dB] [on]
          

          Thanks,
          pete

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          • mituM
            mitu Global Moderator
            last edited by mitu

            Looks like the usual Pi4 configuration. Make sure you don't have a $HOME/.asoundrc file (delete it if it's there) and try again with the default/HDMI Audio settings in EmulationStation.
            Do you have PulseAudio installed/enabled by any chance ?

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              psavas @mitu
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              @mitu There was no .asoundrc file in the HOME directory. In fact, doing a search only turned up an asoundrc.txt.gz file in the ```
              /usr/share/doc/libasound2/examples

              
              I checked in the Audio settings in RetroPie and the PulseAudio is not enabled. On a lark, I tried to enable it and every time I went back into the menu, it still showed the "enable" option for PulseAudio.
              
              pete
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              • mituM
                mitu Global Moderator
                last edited by

                EmulationStation doesn't support PulseAudio and installing it will not help. I was just checking if your default sound card is not a PulseAudio, in which case using HDMI or PCM for the device name will not work.

                Run alsamixer and note the name of the Item in the top left of the mixer - what does it say there ?

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                  psavas @mitu
                  last edited by

                  @mitu It's set for the bcm2835 HDMI 1:

                  6537697d-a35d-4708-8438-3d3f2875fc84-image.png

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                  • mituM
                    mitu Global Moderator
                    last edited by

                    Ok, so using default / HDMI in EmulationStation options should work.

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                      psavas @mitu
                      last edited by

                      @mitu Sadly, it doesn't. The moment I put it back to default/HDMI in the ES Sound Settings panel, the system volume slider goes right back to 0 and I get no sound.

                      What else can I try?

                      Thanks,
                      pete

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                        Ashpool @psavas
                        last edited by

                        @psavas
                        uncomment in /boot/config.txt the line: hdmi_drive=2
                        From your descriptions above, i don't thing this may be your solution, but just to be sure I would try that one (I have encountered some TVs where that is needed, even if they run a CEA mode and are turned on before the Raspi is, so the comment in config.txt about DMT modes is a bit misleading).

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                          psavas @Ashpool
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                          @Ashpool That made no difference either.

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