Wyse3040 - no analog sound -

lucian · June 21, 2024 at 11:24 AM

Hi folks,

Got my hands on a Wyse 3040, it's a tiny thing and low power, great for a htpc (mostly streaming radio/youtube)

Librelex x86 v12.0 installed fine on it, all good, except for the sound. There is none coming out of the analog socket.

I thought, that's easy, just needs dtparam=audio=on in /flash/config.txt as prior Rpi experience taught me, but that solved nothing, there is no sound.

I can see the analog device in the Kodi settings, but in the logs I see this.. any thoughts?

Code

    info <general>: CActiveAESink::OpenSink - initialize sink
    info <general>: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Attempting to open device "sysdefault:CARD=chtbswrt5672"
    info <general>: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Opened device "sysdefault:CARD=chtbswrt5672"
    info <general>: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Your hardware does not support AE_FMT_FLOAT, trying other formats
    info <general>: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Using data format AE_FMT_S16NE
 warning <general>: CAESinkAlsa::InitializeHW - Using default alsa values - set failed
    info <general>: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Attempting to open device "default"
    info <general>: CAESinkALSA::Initialize - Opened device "default"
    info <general>: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Your hardware does not support AE_FMT_FLOAT, trying other formats
    info <general>: CAESinkALSA::InitializeHW - Using data format AE_FMT_S24NE4
   error <general>: CActiveAESink::OpenSink - no sink was returned
   error <general>: ActiveAE::InitSink - returned error

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**chewitt** · June 21, 2024 at 3:16 PM

Quote from lucian

just needs dtparam=audio=on in /flash/config.txt as prior Rpi experience taught me, but that solved nothing,

It's not an RPi, so copying the RPi config.txt file (an RPi only thing) does indeed acheive nothing.

Please provide a full debug log.

How to post a log (wiki)

1. Enable debugging in Settings>System Settings>Logging
2. Restart Kodi
3. Replicate the problem
4. Generate a log URL (do not post/upload logs to the forum)

use "Settings > LibreELEC > System > Paste system logs" or run "pastekodi" over SSH, then post the URL link

petediscrete · June 21, 2024 at 4:01 PM

Sound does not work on Wyse 3040 thin client · Issue #1690 · home-assistant/operating-system

Describe the issue you are experiencing The required kernel module for audio in my Wyse 3040 is not included. It uses the rt5670 driver…

github.com

**mglae** · June 21, 2024 at 4:13 PM

When searching cherry trail audio in this forum you find several reports but there seem to be no solution.

If motivated you may extend the search to the whole web.

lucian · June 21, 2024 at 10:18 PM Best Answer

I've got it. Analog output on DELL Wyse 3040 requires the pulseaudio module-udev-detect on Libreelec.

Since /etc/pulse/default.pa is on squashfs there's not much to do there, so one can load the module via Libreelec's autostart.sh like this:

Code

( sleep 10
/usr/bin/pactl load-module module-udev-detect
)&

Just add that to /storage/.config/autostart.sh file.

If I run that without the sleep for 10 seconds it fails for whatever reason, 5 seconds might also work, but wanted to make sure Kodi is up and running when it gets run.

PS: In addition i have also blacklisted the HDMI audio kernel module, as it will not be used at all and don't want to risk Kodi randomly switching to it:

Code

echo blacklist snd_hdmi_lpe_audio >> /storage/.config/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

**chewitt** · June 22, 2024 at 5:47 AM

If you want more precise scheduling (after something, but before Kodi starts) you can use a systemd service to run commands. Have a look at the wireguard sample service in /storage/.config/system.d for a rough template.

Wyse3040 - no analog sound -

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