solved /sound issues

tar

bolded text****sound issues
tar
24 Feb 2021, 18:57

Model B 4 GB Ram
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32GB Micro SD Card Preloaded with NOOBS
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retropie 4.8.9
for some reason i seem to have lost sound in my arcade roms only daphne and nes etc all work.
found this link text and maybe dont understand it.. maybe del or rename config file.?
thanks for any help leading me in the right direction

tar

@tar so was thinking maybe i could just do a fresh install reformate the sd card and start over... if i do this is there anyway i wouldnt have to do the controllers and the screen turning and daphne setups again. i rember it took me weeks of reading with little understanding.

tar

@tar You can configure the sound system to work like before the update by modifying /boot/cmdline.txt and adding at the end

snd-bcm2835.enable_compat_alsa=1
i tried this to no avail.
ive also changed every audio setting i can find in retroarch and retropie. getting them all to hdmi output. nothing seems to work. ive read almost all thewposts tagged audio getting a good headache lol
THIS WILL TEACH ME TO UPDATE AFTER 4 YEARS

mitu

Which arcade emulator lost sound ? You've not mentioned which game/emulator have you used. What did you change before you lost sound ?

tar

@mitu lr mame all i did was add favorites and update retropie

mitu

Try renaming (or removing) the retroarch.cfg file from /opt/retropie/configs/arcade and then re-install lr-mame again to create the default RetroPie configuration for it.

tar

@mitu so after doing that still no sound in arcade. but i noticed in top left on reboot
. hoping that might tell ya what may have happened?

mitu

You may have a config override that's setting the sound wrong. Try to provide a verbose log, as explained here and post the resulting log (from /dev/shm/runcommand.log) on pastebin.com.

tar

@mitu link text i think i did this right

mitu

Yes, the log is correct, but there are no audio related errors in it. It's not the RetroArch config that's causing the lack of audio.

If you have created any audio configuration files while troubleshooting the issue, I advise you to remove then, then go in RetroPie's Audio Settings entry and set the audio to HDMI/Headphones (whatever fits your setup). Check - in the same menu - the audio volume and make sure the audio output is not muted, then retry to see if you still have an issue.

tar

@mitu ok thank you very much.
now hopefully i took good notes as to what i did..
if not i can allways start over lol

tar

@mitu ok thanks again ever so much.
issue is solved.
after resetting everything to where it was when problem started . still no sound on arcade mame only.
whent to rertropie audio settings

set dmi 1 4 or 5 times rebooting every time no sound.
changed to some other setting reboot them change back to hdmi 1 reboot i have sound ,,
i duno worked .
thanks again

mitu

@tar I didn't understood a thing, but if things are working out, then 👍.

tar

@mitu sorry was excited just had to set audio in retropie menu but some reason it didnt take the first 4 or 5 times
until i changed output to a diffrent output then back to hdmi .