Pandaboard ES no audio

November 27th, 2012

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November 27, 2012 at 12:06 #5404

spike
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Hello,

I installed GeexBox 3.0 to my Pandaboard ES. Everything but sound seems to work. As soon as I try to play some audio it fails with “failed to initialize audio device”. I have tried to use analog and hdmi. I have changed settings in the GUI and in /etc/audio too. Nothing seems to help. Some users have written in this forum that they have sound in the menu but not while playing music. Well, I don’t have sound at all. I don’t understand the different combinations in the GUI audio settings. There are 16 different PandaES hdmi’s. Which should I choose? And I don’t mind using analog sound, but it keeps failing to initialize too…

wbr,spike

# aplay -l

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****

card 0: PandaES [PandaES], device 0: Multimedia (*) []

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: PandaES [PandaES], device 2: Voice (*) []

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: PandaES [PandaES], device 3: Tone Playback (*) []

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: PandaES [PandaES], device 4: VIB-DL (*) []

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: PandaES [PandaES], device 5: MODEM (*) []

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: PandaES [PandaES], device 6: Multimedia (*) []

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: PandaES [PandaES], device 8: Headset Playback twl6040-legacy-8 []

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: PandaES [PandaES], device 9: (HS Playback) []

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: PandaES [PandaES], device 11: (HF Playback) []

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: PandaES [PandaES], device 12: (Vibra) []

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: PandaES [PandaES], device 13: (BT Capture) []

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: PandaES [PandaES], device 14: (BT Playback) []

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: PandaES [PandaES], device 15: (FM Playback) []

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 0: PandaES [PandaES], device 16: (FM Capture) []

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

card 1: OMAPHDMI [OMAPHDMI], device 0: HDMI omap-hdmi-hifi-0 []

Subdevices: 1/1

Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

November 28, 2012 at 02:38 #5410

tomlohave
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what is the content of /etc/asound.conf ?

November 28, 2012 at 10:58 #5413

spike
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Thank you for a reply. Here’s my /etc/audio

# cat /etc/audio

# Soundcard Configuration File

# Soundcard to use by name (e.g. “SB”) or by ID (0 for first card, 1 for second, …)

ALSA_CARD=”0″

# Output mode ( analog/digital/hdmi )

# digital is used for SPDIF/IEC958 output

SOUNDCARD_MODE=”analog”

# passthrough mode for digital/hdmi outputs (none, ac3, dts or ac3dts)

# (Note: in analog mode this option is ignored)

# none : software audio decoding for all streams

# ac3 : enable hardware passthrough for AC-3 streams only

# dts : enable hardware passthrough for DTS streams only

# ac3dts : enable hardware passthrough for both AC-3 and DTS streams

SOUNDCARD_PT_MODE=”none”

# IEC958 Playback AC97-SPSA Mode:

# 0. PCM1

# 1. PCM2,PCM1 (rear)

# 2. Centre and LFE

# 3. PCM3,Modem,Dedicated S/PDIF

# For SPDIF most users will want 0, but some users may need 3.

AC97_SPSA=”0″

# Playback channels

# 2 – Stereo

# 4 – Surround

# 6 – Full 5.1

# note: in SPDIF and hardware AC3 decoder mode this option is ignored.

CHANNELS=”2″

# SB Live/Audigy Analog/Digital Output Mode:

# 0: Suitable for some older SB Live! cards

# 1: Suitable for newer SB Live! and all Audigy cards

SBL_AUDIGY=”1″

November 28, 2012 at 11:30 #5415

tomlohave
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ok, you use analog …

try in xbmc, in audio conf, custom settings, enter :

plughw:0,6

try too :

plughw:0,8

November 28, 2012 at 13:31 #5420

spike
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Hi,

the plughw:0,8 doesn’t give the “failed to initialize” error, but there still is no sound.

Another thing I noticed is that if I open any music add-on with plughw:0,8 the radio starts to play but the seconds go really slow. It takes nearly 10 real seconds until the box changes the second number on screen. If I change the plughw to something else, I get the initializing error but the seconds go in realtime.

wbr,spike

November 29, 2012 at 11:33 #5425

tomlohave
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will test, i just received a new board 4460

other is 4430

November 29, 2012 at 11:49 #5427

spike
Member

Thanks, I’ll wait for your reply.

wbr,spike

November 29, 2012 at 13:30 #5429

tomlohave
Member

Works out of the box over hdmi …

tested this build : http://download.geexbox.org/snapshots/geexbox-xbmc-omap4-pandaboard/20121126/binaries.pandaboard/

November 30, 2012 at 02:01 #5438

spike
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Hi,

It didn’t help. I installed this build the same way – formatted the SD card and added the build with the ./omapsd /dev/ssd

The out-of-box was configured in xbmc settings audio output analog and it gave the initialization fault. I tried to change it but still got the same fault. Please post here the out-of-box settings in xbmc audio settings and from /etc/audio that you managed to get to work.

wbr,spike

November 30, 2012 at 05:59 #5440

tomlohave
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my omap :

U-Boot 2012.07 (Nov 28 2012 – 20:00:44)

CPU : OMAP4460 ES1.1
Board: OMAP4 Panda

my asound.conf :

# cat /etc/asound.conf

pcm.!default { type hw card 1 device 0 }

I didn’t touch conf in /etc/audio, nor in xbmc, it’s default one

# cat /etc/audio
# Soundcard Configuration File

# Soundcard to use by name (e.g. “SB”) or by ID (0 for first card, 1 for second, …)
ALSA_CARD=”0″

# Output mode ( analog/digital/hdmi )
# digital is used for SPDIF/IEC958 output
SOUNDCARD_MODE=”hdmi”

# passthrough mode for digital/hdmi outputs (none, ac3, dts or ac3dts)
#   (Note: in analog mode this option is ignored)
# none : software audio decoding for all streams
# ac3 : enable hardware passthrough for AC-3 streams only
# dts : enable hardware passthrough for DTS streams only
# ac3dts : enable hardware passthrough for both AC-3 and DTS streams
SOUNDCARD_PT_MODE=”none”

# IEC958 Playback AC97-SPSA Mode:
# 0. PCM1
# 1. PCM2,PCM1 (rear)
# 2. Centre and LFE
# 3. PCM3,Modem,Dedicated S/PDIF
# For SPDIF most users will want 0, but some users may need 3.
AC97_SPSA=”0″

# Playback channels
#   2 – Stereo
#   4 – Surround
#   6 – Full 5.1
# note: in SPDIF and hardware AC3 decoder mode this option is ignored.
CHANNELS=”2″

# SB Live/Audigy Analog/Digital Output Mode:
# 0: Suitable for some older SB Live! cards
# 1: Suitable for newer SB Live! and all Audigy cards
SBL_AUDIGY=”1″

November 30, 2012 at 08:23 #5442

spike
Member

what are the settings in the system->settings->system->audio output

I have Pandaboard ES rev.B1 OMAP4460

The conf files are the same as you have.

wbr,spike

December 1, 2012 at 01:18 #5447

tomlohave
Member

As said, I didn’t touch the config of xbmc. it’s the basic one, I use only hdmi for sound.

December 1, 2012 at 03:47 #5449

spike
Member

Well, yes you mentioned that you didn’t change anything. Although in my panda’s original xbmc config there was analog output enabled. That’s why I’m asking. It would be a bit strange if you also have analog defined as output but the sound comes from hdmi…

wbr,spike

December 1, 2012 at 04:35 #5450

tomlohave
Member

yes, keep this value.

December 10, 2012 at 07:28 #5514

spike
Member

Sry, I’ve beem away for a while and I could not test it. But now I just tested out-of-box with the build you told and with the latest build (03.12) too but no change – there’s the initialization error. I didn’t change anything. I have a Philips 32″ LCD connected to the PandaES.
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