DualShock no audio

Matthewlawson3

Hi, I have a PlayStation 4 Dual Shock controller that, when plugged in by USB, to Retropie causes the audio to disappear. When unplugged audio returns. Can anyone help resolve this issue so I can use the Dual Shock?

Crush

@matthewlawson3 said in DualShock no audio:

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What power supply are you using, and what Raspberry, what are your other plugged in usb devices
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

mitu

The DS4 controller has an audio jack - when plugged in via USB, a new soundcard is added to the system. My guess is that the audio configuration picks up this new soundcard and outputs to it.

@Matthewlawson3 how is your audio configured ? Some details about your system (as @Crush mentioned) would be useful to know .

Matthewlawson3

@mitu @Crush sorry. I am using a raspberry pi 4b with 8GB of RAM. Just the dual shock plugged in. I am also using a 1/8 inch headphone jack for the speakers for sound. I have forced the headphone jack in the configuration.

mitu

I have a similar configuration but didn't notice this issue. How did you set the Audio to Headphones - did you use the RetroPie system's Audio settings or through another method ?

Matthewlawson3

@mitu said in DualShock no audio:

I have a similar configuration but didn't notice this issue. How did you set the Audio to Headphones - did you use the RetroPie system's Audio settings or through another method ?

I basically followed the video below to force the 3.5 mm headphone jack. If I recall correctly, I enabled 3.5 mm headphone jack in the audio section of retropie and in raspi config and in retropie setup. I wasn't getting any sound out of the speakers till I forced it.

mitu

When you open the Audio menu in from the RetroPie system, does it say PulseAudio at the top ?

Matthewlawson3

@mitu said in DualShock no audio:

When you open the Audio menu in from the RetroPie system, does it say PulseAudio at the top ?

It says Set Audio Output (ALSA)

At the time I checked I didn’t have the Dual Shock plugged in. Does that matter?

mitu

@matthewlawson3 said in DualShock no audio:

At the time I checked I didn’t have the Dual Shock plugged in. Does that matter?

No, it doesn't. Was making sure you didn't have PulseAudio installed. Here's a quick'n'dirty method to get rid of the audio switch:

have a keyboard connected to the Pi or use SSH to connect to it

exit EmulationStation and run the following command

echo blacklist snd-usb-audio | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-snd-usb-audio.conf

reboot your Pi

NOTE: this disables any USB based audio devices, so if you ever want to connect an audio sound card, remove the file you created (sudo rm /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-snd-usb-audio.conf).

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