Audio no longer works after updating to Armbian 24.8.2

[PHLAK]

I've been using a few Rock Pi S devices as snapcast clients and after updating them to Armbian 24.8.2 audio does not work anymore.

 

This seems similar to this old post (fix PR).

 

Also, this PR may be a relevant to the issue.

 

https://paste.armbian.com/aziwayelen

 

$ snapclient --host [REDACTED]
2024-09-17 09-28-10.435 [Error] (Snapclient) PCM device "default" not found
2024-09-17 09-28-10.436 [Info] (Snapclient) Version 0.26.0
2024-09-17 09-28-10.437 [Info] (Connection) Resolving host IP for: [REDACTED]
2024-09-17 09-28-10.440 [Info] (Connection) Connecting
2024-09-17 09-28-10.442 [Notice] (Connection) Connected to 192.168.0.100
2024-09-17 09-28-10.442 [Info] (Connection) My MAC: "42:00:00:00:80:30", socket: 8
2024-09-17 09-28-10.518 [Info] (Controller) ServerSettings - buffer: 1000, latency: 0, volume: 75, muted: 0
2024-09-17 09-28-10.519 [Info] (Controller) Codec: flac, sampleformat: 48000:16:2
2024-09-17 09-28-10.520 [Info] (Player) Player name: alsa, device: default, description: <none>, idx: -1, sharing mode: unspecified, parameters: <none>
2024-09-17 09-28-10.520 [Info] (Player) Mixer mode: software, parameters: <none>
2024-09-17 09-28-10.520 [Info] (Player) Sampleformat: 48000:16:2, stream: 48000:16:2
2024-09-17 09-28-10.520 [Info] (Alsa) Using default buffer_time: 80 ms, default fragments: 4
ALSA lib confmisc.c:855:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:5180:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_inum returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:422:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:5180:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1334:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:5180:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:5703:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2666:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
2024-09-17 09-28-10.528 [Error] (Alsa) Exception: Can't open default, error: No such file or directory, code: -2
2024-09-17 09-28-10.530 [Fatal] (Snapclient) Exception: Can't open default, error: No such file or directory
2024-09-17 09-28-10.530 [Notice] (Snapclient) Snapclient terminated.

 

$ aplay -l
aplay: device_list:274: no soundcards found...

 

When following the instructions on the official wiki to enable the audio jack I get a `Permission denied` error echoing a value to the `/sys/class/gpio/export` (but not gpio15).

 

$ sudo echo 15 > /sys/class/gpio/export
-bash: /sys/class/gpio/export: Permission denied

$ sudo cat /sys/class/gpio/export 
cat: /sys/class/gpio/export: Permission denied

$ ls -Al /sys/class/gpio/
total 0
--w------- 1 root root 4096 Sep 17 09:16 export
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 Sep 17 09:16 gpio15 -> ../../devices/platform/pinctrl/ff220000.gpio/gpiochip0/gpio/gpio15
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 Dec 31  1969 gpiochip0 -> ../../devices/platform/pinctrl/ff220000.gpio/gpio/gpiochip0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 Dec 31  1969 gpiochip128 -> ../../devices/platform/pinctrl/ff260000.gpio/gpio/gpiochip128
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 Dec 31  1969 gpiochip32 -> ../../devices/platform/pinctrl/ff230000.gpio/gpio/gpiochip32
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 Dec 31  1969 gpiochip64 -> ../../devices/platform/pinctrl/ff240000.gpio/gpio/gpiochip64
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 Dec 31  1969 gpiochip96 -> ../../devices/platform/pinctrl/ff250000.gpio/gpio/gpiochip96
--w------- 1 root root 4096 Sep 17 09:36 unexport

Edited September 18 by PHLAK

[PHLAK]

I was able to fix this by updating to the 6.7 kernel via `armbian-config`.

[PHLAK]

Looks like this is broken again in Armbian 24.8.3 with kernel v6.11.0 and, even worse, when attempting to install another kerenl via `armbian-config` it says there are no other kernels available.

 

$ uname -a
Linux snapclient-kitchen 6.11.0-edge-rockchip64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Sep 15 14:57:56 UTC 2024 aarch64 GNU/Linux

 

Edited 15 hours ago by PHLAK

[Igor]

12 hours ago, PHLAK said:

like this is broken again in Armbian 24.8.3 with kernel v6.11.0

 

This is highly expected. We don't even try to support EDGE kernels at end user level.

 

This kernel is EOL and will be replaced with a v6.12.y in next year Q1 release. But we can't secure you that this problem will be fixed as support budget is negative (we have some support for other boards from Radxa) and we, nobody in the team, can't afford to spent days or weeks resolving this. However, you are welcome to spent at least time and join debugging this - problems is as yours as it is ours. The reasons why we keep build framework in a good state is that you can help resolving problems https://github.com/armbian/build We are and will always be too small to face this mountain of problems that are generated by everyone, compensated by no-one. Not by us, but all community that is poking kernels, and hardware dealers that are flooding this market.