Hi all,First I wanted to thank all the devs and those helping with the troubleshooting, this setup is exactly what I'm looking for. I was wondering if someone would be willing to help a relative Linux newbie with another sound issue in EmulationStation. I tried some of the fixes mentioned in here, and it seems like I'm running in circles. I have "Keep Audio Device Alive" disabled, and "Play GUI Sounds" is set to "Only when playback stopped". Audio works fine in LibreElec with no asound.conf mods. I have passthrough on and the passthrough device is "ALSA: HDA Intel PCH, CAT CAT-6066 on HDMI" under Audio settings. This is a fresh install, the only changes are the addition of Roms and adding TG16 as a System.
I'm using a NUC5PGYH, the quad core Pentium with built-in eMMC storage. I would assume it's the same as the NUC5PPYH without the storage built-in. When I run aplay -L I get this:
Codenull Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture) default:CARD=PCH HDA Intel PCH, ALC283 Analog Default Audio Device sysdefault:CARD=PCH HDA Intel PCH, ALC283 Analog Default Audio Device front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC283 Analog Front speakers surround21:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC283 Analog 2.1 Surround output to Front and Subwoofer speakers surround40:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC283 Analog 4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers surround41:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC283 Analog 4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround50:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC283 Analog 5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers surround51:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC283 Analog 5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers surround71:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC283 Analog 7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers iec958:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, ALC283 Digital IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 0 HDMI Audio Output
So I tried updating asound.conf to this since he (Ti-Paul) had a very similar NUC to mine:Codepcm.!default { type plug slave.pcm { @func getenv vars [ ALSAPCM ] # Device name can be found using the command 'aplay -L' default "hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=0" } }
Running speaker-test with this gives me this error:Codespeaker-test 1.1.2 Playback device is default Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels Using 16 octaves of pink noise ALSA lib /home/trondah/LibreELEC.tv/build.LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-8.0-devel/alsa-lib-1.1.3/src/conf.c:1852:(snd_config_load1) _toplevel_:7:34:Unexpected char ALSA lib /home/trondah/LibreELEC.tv/build.LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-8.0-devel/alsa-lib-1.1.3/src/conf.c:3615:(config_file_open) /storage/.config/asound.conf may be old or corrupted: consider to remove or fix it ALSA lib /home/trondah/LibreELEC.tv/build.LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-8.0-devel/alsa-lib-1.1.3/src/conf.c:3537:(snd_config_hooks_call) function snd_config_hook_load returned error: Invalid argument ALSA lib /home/trondah/LibreELEC.tv/build.LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-8.0-devel/alsa-lib-1.1.3/src/conf.c:3986:(snd_config_update_r) hooks failed, removing configuration Playback open error: -22,Invalid argument
Also, when asound.conf is saved with default "hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=1", I just seem to get a black screen on a reboot. I have to ssh in and delete the asound.conf file and reboot again, and within seconds I'm back at my library.I tried another suggestion from BeeGrits post which was to set asound.conf as since he mentioned similar Intel hardware:
Code[code] pcm.!default { type hw card 0 device 3 } ctl.!default { type hw card 0 device 3 }
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This gave me this this running speaker-test:Code# speaker-test speaker-test 1.1.2 Playback device is default Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels Using 16 octaves of pink noise Channels count (1) not available for playbacks: Invalid argument Setting of hwparams failed: Invalid argumentWould someone be willing to point me in the right direction? As I mentioned, sound works fine in Kodi just not EmulationStation. I feel like I'm am almost there, and just my lack of Linux knowledge is the problem. It's probably something stupidly simple, I'm just not sure whats next. I really appreciate any help. Sorry for the first post being long, I'd rather give too much info than not enough.
I just noticed the following. Not sure if this is the case, but you said your options were:
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Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
default:CARD=PCH
HDA Intel PCH, ALC283 Analog
Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=PCH
HDA Intel PCH, ALC283 Analog
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, ALC283 Analog
Front speakers
surround21:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, ALC283 Analog
2.1 Surround output to Front and Subwoofer speakers
surround40:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, ALC283 Analog
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, ALC283 Analog
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, ALC283 Analog
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, ALC283 Analog
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, ALC283 Analog
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, ALC283 Digital
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=0
HDA Intel PCH, HDMI 0
HDMI Audio Output
So you updated your asound.conf
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm {
@func getenv
vars [ ALSAPCM ]
# Device name can be found using the command 'aplay -L'
default "hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=0"
}
}Your list shows your device is hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 for hdmi not hdmi:CARD=HDMI,DEV=0. Try changing it to PCH