Raspberry Pi3 - no sound, would like mplayer

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#1

Dear all

AFAIK sound via HDMI on a Pi3 with OpenSUSE aarch64 is not possible (as per release announcement). I am uncertain the status of sound via the analogue jack - has anyone got this working? Certainly on my setup there is nothing after boot in dmesg that looks like a sound driver despite having dtparam=audio=on in my config.txt (which in Raspbian loads snd_bcm2835). And firing Sound module in YaST throws an error “No card found”.

If I can get sound the next challenge would be to install mplayer but it seems to me there are no aarch64 packages in Packman - are these located elsewhere?

TIA

#2

Hi
You would need to look at asking on the Packman Mailing list, info at http://lists.links2linux.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/packman for Aarch64 built targets.

Did you try;


# Force the monitor to HDMI mode so that sound will be sent over HDMI cable
hdmi_drive=2

Ref: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/config-txt/README.md

#3

My problem is more basic than that - I don’t have any /proc/asound/ structure nor devices in /dev/snd/

~> ls -l /dev/snd/
total 0
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116,  1 Jan  1  1970 seq
crw-rw----+ 1 root audio 116, 33 Jan  1  1970 timer
#4

I haven’t tried to keep up with all the architectural changes over the years relating to sound…
A better starting point than looking at specific file locations is to open up YaST, verify a sound device is recognized and note its configuration.

TSU

#5

Sure. As per 1st post firing Sound module in YaST throws an error “No card found”.

#6

What happens if you try to load the sound driver manually?

modprobe snd_bcm2835

This might be applicable…

  1. It seems the snd_bcm2835 module isn’t set up to autoload. I added it
    into a file in /etc/modules-load.d/ and that seems to have resolved it.

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-arm/2014-01/msg00034.html

#7

Good suggestion -

~> sudo modprobe snd-bcm2835
modprobe: FATAL: Module snd-bcm2835 not found.

Seems there is no snd-bcm2835 in the build: indeed a filesearch finds no such file whereas in Raspbian it is in /lib/modules/…/kernel/sound/arm/. I guess it either hasn’t been built yet for aarch64 or there is a packaging error. I did try copy the (arm7) version from Raspbian into /lib/modules/4.4.49-16-default/kernel/sound/arm/ but got the same ‘module not found’ error so I guess installing it takes more than just copying a file! Apart from which don’t really expect a arm7 driver to work under aarch64 but it was a clutch at a straw.

#8

I checked the package “alsa-firmware” and did not see the bcm2385 there. I search on openSUSE download only revealed BCM2385 timer: https://software.opensuse.org/package/perl-Device-BCM2835-Timer.

That does suggest thou someone has done some work on this for openSUSE. I just came back from vacation and I need to rush to work (my paid job) and can’t look into this any further now.

Good luck in your efforts.