PineH64-b has no audio device, is it expected?

delius · December 8, 2020

Hi, Armbian gurus.

I tried latest Armbian image for PineH64-b. (Armbian_20.11_Pineh64-b_focal_current_5.8.16_desktop)

And I surprisingly found there is no audio device when I looked around.( by #aplay -l )

Is this expected for now? My older 5.6 kernel has HDMI device at least.

I tried search audio problem around but had no discover so far. Please allow me to confirm with you.

I'm looking for a good 5.8 multimedia-capable kernel to merge with my gentoo rootfs.

Thank you.

Werner · December 8, 2020

Providing logs with

armbianmonitor -u

helps with troubleshooting and significantly raises chances that issue gets addressed.

delius · December 9, 2020

Oh yeah,

What a miss, my apology.

Here is the link to the dump of #armbianmonitor -u
armbianmonitor dump on PineH64 with latest current Armbian desktop

Thank you.

delius · December 21, 2020

Hi, Armbian gurus,

The dump is now uploaded to http://ix.io/2IZl.

And also, I found something unusual in sun50i-h6-pine-h64-model-b.dts:

	hdmi-sound {
		compatible = "simple-audio-card";
		simple-audio-card,format = "i2s";
		simple-audio-card,name = "sun50i-h6-hdmi";
		simple-audio-card,mclk-fs = <0x80>;
		simple-audio-card,frame-inversion;
		status = "disabled";
		phandle = <0x53>;

		simple-audio-card,codec {
			sound-dai = <0x08>;
		};

		simple-audio-card,cpu {
			sound-dai = <0x09>;
			dai-tdm-slot-num = <0x02>;
			dai-tdm-slot-width = <0x20>;
		};
	};

Although I am not familiar with dts, I changed the status = "disabled" to "okay" to compile dtb again to replace the one in /boot/dtb/allwinner/

...

But unfortunately, it didn't work neither.

Do you have any more idea?