My first day with my Pie has been frustrating.. Plz help.

stebai

Hi,
Thanks for reading my post - This it seems is not a first post on this subject but everything I have tried has failed.. My Retropie was working fine out of the box. Only problem I couldn't get it to recognize by Bluettoth Ipega Controller. A quick search on you tube had this guy telling me to go into my Pie front end and type in sudo apt update then sudo apt upgrade.. This in theory would update my Pie and the Ipega should be viewable. Well it worked! The Ipega showed up and I thought all was well - until my next boot. Although I have audio in my intro video as soon as the UI loads nothing, not a squeak. The background music fails to play in both enabled and disabled modes - and this message is displayed in the top corner of my screen:

ALSA lib control.c:1375:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hdmi
Nov 23 10:21:35 lv10: VolumeControl::init() - Failed to attach to default card!

My audio settings in the config always revert to 0% after I increase them and save out..

So spent the next 4 hours trying to suss out what went wrong and although I have watched videos and read threads - none have really helped. Someone posted the that this needed to be in the config file "# Enable audio (loads snd_bcm2835)
dtparam=audio=on" - but it is... I really am stumped and quite fed up.. If anyone can point me in the right direction I would be hugely grateful.
Here is my config file:

# For more options and information see
# http://rpf.io/configtxt
# Some settings may impact device functionality. See link above for details

# Avoid Warnings symbols (Not Recommended)
#avoid_warnings=1

disable_splash=1

#Ensures the LCD is not the default display
display_default_lcd=0

# uncomment if you get no picture on HDMI for a default "safe" mode
#hdmi_safe=1

# uncomment this if your display has a black border of unused pixels visible
# and your display can output without overscan
disable_overscan=1

# uncomment the following to adjust overscan. Use positive numbers if console
# goes off screen, and negative if there is too much border
#overscan_left=16
#overscan_right=16
#overscan_top=16
#overscan_bottom=16

# uncomment to force a console size. By default it will be display's size minus
# overscan.
#framebuffer_width=1280
#framebuffer_height=720

# uncomment if hdmi display is not detected and composite is being output
hdmi_force_hotplug=1

# uncomment to force a specific HDMI mode (this will force VGA)
# uncomment to define the custom video mode over hdmi
# https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/config-txt/video.md
# command hdmi_cvt=<width required> <height required> <framerate required> <aspect no> <margins 0-1> <interlace 0-1> <rb 0-1>
# aspect ratios numbers fro hdmi_cvt command 1=4:3, 2=14:9, 3=16:9, 4=5:4, 5=16:10, 6=15:9
#hdmi_group command options 0/(Auto) / 1(TVs CEA) / 2(Monitors DMT)
# uncomment to force a specific HDMI mode (this will force VGA)
#hdmi_group=1
#hdmi_mode=1
# uncomment to force a specific HDMI mode 1080p (This setting is required to force 1080p)
#hdmi_group=1
#hdmi_mode=16
# uncomment to force a specific HDMI mode 4K (This setting force 4K tv to use 1080p 60fps vs 30fps) fix by 2play!-VMAN!
#hdmi_group=2
#hdmi_mode=82
hdmi_ignore_edid=0xa5000080

# uncomment to force a HDMI mode rather than DVI. This can make audio work in
# DMT (computer monitor) modes
hdmi_drive=2

# uncomment to increase signal to HDMI, if you have interference, blanking, or
# no display
#config_hdmi_boost=4

# uncomment for composite PAL
#sdtv_mode=2

#uncomment to overclock the arm. 700 MHz is the default.
#uncomment to enable custom overclock settings
#arm_freq=2000
#gpu_freq=600
#over_voltage=6

# 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

# Uncomment this to enable the lirc-rpi module
#dtoverlay=lirc-rpi

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

# Enable audio (loads snd_bcm2835)
dtparam=audio=on
disable_audio_dither=on
#gpu_mem_256=128
#gpu_mem_512=256
#gpu_mem_1024=384
#gpu_mem_2048=512
#gpu_mem_4096=512
gpu_mem=512
#overscan_scale=1

# Enables USB BOOT MODE on PI3B
program_usb_boot_mode=1
#enable_uart=1

[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

# RJ's 3.5m audio jack pop-crackle-lag fix
#audio_pwm_mode=0

# Throttling back from 60C instead of 70C may help under load
#temp_soft_limit=70

I am at a loss and throw myself at the mercy of the group. As an old guy who can remember his first 10p on Space Invaders in 76 (i think) I'd love to get this thing back to working again.

Thanks for reading and any help/ideas will be greatly appreciated.

Steve

mitu

[...] The background music fails to play in both enabled and disabled modes - and this message is displayed in the top corner of my screen:
Nov 23 10:21:35 lv10: VolumeControl::init() - Failed to attach to default card!

Out of the box, RetroPie doesn't have any background music functionality, is this a 3rd party script that's running ?

.. If anyone can point me in the right direction I would be hugely grateful.

Are you using a 3rd party image or the RetroPie image from https://retropie.org.uk/download ? The official RetroPIe image doesn't have this issue and we don't support 3rd party images here in the forums.

Please add the info requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first to be able diagnose this further.