Audio broken on current builds (23.02 Jammy)

[d0pefish]

armbianmonitor output: http://ix.io/4s3z

 

I'm testing Armbian 23.02 Jammy on a Rock Pi S with its matching "PoE HAT" (which provides a 3.5mm headphone jack).

No sound cards are available despite the device tree evidently containing sound devices/codecs [1, 2].

 

aplay output:

rockpi-s:~:% aplay -l
aplay: device_list:274: no soundcards found...

 

The armbianmonitor/dmesg output contains the following suspicious lines:

[   24.551148] platform acodec-sound: deferred probe pending
[   24.551191] platform sound: deferred probe pending

 

Digging into this a bit further, I found this

root@rockpi-s:/home/dale# cat /sys/kernel/debug/devices_deferred
acodec-sound    asoc-simple-card: parse error
sound   asoc-simple-card: parse error

 

If I were to guess, it looks like a devicetree issue, but unfortunately I have no idea how to debug devicetree issues.

If anyone can provide any pointers on how to capture more detailed devicetree logs to try and figure out this "parse error", I'd appreciate it.

 

Thanks!

[brentr]

I'm seeing the same thing with the newer kernels.

I'll look into it in the coming weeks and post when I know more.

Thanks for catching this.

- brent

 

[brentr]

Audio should work with an older kernel.  I'll look into why it broken with the 6.x kernel.

If you are using the headphone jack on the POE hat, be sure to read this:

 

https://wiki.radxa.com/ROCKPI_S_PoE_HAT

 

[d0pefish]

Hi Brent, thank you for your help and for looking into this.

In the meantime I'll test an older kernel and follow the wiki steps as you suggest.

 

Cheers,

-Dale

[brentr]

I inadvertently removed the rk3808 audio patches from the Armbian 6.1.x kernel patches.

I'll be fixing this in the next few days.

 

@d0pefish  Would you be able to verify this audio fix with your POE hat?

I don't have one.

 

 

[d0pefish]

@brentr Of course, would be  more than happy to test this with the PoE HAT.

 

Will that just be a case of pulling the latest https://github.com/armbian/build after the fixes are pushed and building the kernel from source?

Thank you again for looking into this.

 

[brentr]

I will message you with a link to the image I'd like you to test with your PoE HAT.

Once you confirm the fix, I'll get it incorporated into the standard Rock Pi-S images.

( [Thought I'd be able to build the test image this weekend, but the weather here got too nice to stay inside. 🙂

[d0pefish]

Perfect, thank you - and no rush whatsoever - much more important to enjoy the weather when it's nice! 🙂

[NaK]

@brentr, I am NOT using any HATs - just the audio output on the board itself - and I too, don't see any audio devices.

 I installed Armbian 23.02 Bullseye from https://www.armbian.com/rockpi-s, and ran "apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade".

uname: Linux rockpi-s 6.1.11-rockchip64 #23.02.2 SMP PREEMPT Sat Feb 18 00:08:25 UTC 2023 aarch64 GNU/Linux
 

Any help is appreciated!

[Igor]

This was fixed https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/5088

• built jammy image with patched 6.1.125 kernel verified /dev/snd/ nodes returned
• Sent patched image to the user who had the audio HAT for the RockPi-S
• He verified that audio (output at least) now works.

On 4/28/2023 at 4:35 PM, NaK said:

Any help is appreciated!

Build from sources, try automated community builds or wait few weeks for release,

[NaK]

Hi @Igor, your private image works good for me - I appreciate your effort!

Do you happen to have an ETA when the official Armbian will include these changes?

Latest Armbian is from Feb 27, 2023.

[Igor]

1 hour ago, NaK said:

when the official Armbian will include these changes?

 

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