Question about speakers.

NurseAngela

Hi I have got an old set of Dell speakers and tried to connect them to the raspberry pi but no sound is coming out. What am I doing wrong? I have connected the 3.5mm headphone jack to the pi and the usb to both the pi and a separate plug but still nothing.

When I go onto sound settings and raise the volume it always goes back to 0. I have audio device set as speaker and audio card as default.

Can anyone help please?

Also my retropie loads up from the start which is fine but how do I get back to the raspberry pi desktop??

As you know from my other threads this is all new to me so I apologise if this is a really stupid question

(I have a raspberry pi4)

mitu

Did you try to look over https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/26628/ and apply the settings there ?

Also my retropie loads up from the start which is fine but how do I get back to the raspberry pi desktop??

RetroPie doesn't come with a desktop. How did you install it ?

NurseAngela

@mitu said in Question about speakers.:

Did you try to look over https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/26628/ and apply the settings there ?

Also my retropie loads up from the start which is fine but how do I get back to the raspberry pi desktop??

RetroPie doesn't come with a desktop. How did you install it ?

Hi thank you for your help. I set up my raspberry pi like it told me to so I had the desktop with web browser etc then I added retropie and flashed it to the SD card (think that’s the right description) so now when I turn on the pi it loads up retropie and when I click exit emulation station it takes me to a CMD screen

mitu

@NurseAngela That's normal - as I said, RetroPIe doesn't come with a desktop environment set-up. If you wish to install it, you can do so - see here - , but the desktop is not necessary for playing games.

NurseAngela

@mitu thank you so much you are a huge help.

Clyde

As for your sound problem, which Pi do you have and which version of Retropie?

There's currently an issue after the Linux OS "Raspbian" which Retropie 4.6 is based on changed the mapping of audio devices in the system.

If you have RetroPie 4.6, you can try two workarounds until Emulation Station is updated, but it requires editing two configuration text files:

Edit the file /boot/cmdline.txt and add the following line to it: snd-bcm2835.enable_compat_alsa=1.

or

Choose RetroPie-Setup in Emulation Station, then audiosettings, and select "Headphone" as audio output.
Edit the file /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/es_settings.cfg and change the "PCM" in the line <string name="AudioDevice" value="PCM" /> to "Headphone".

If neither of those work alone, try them together.