OrangePI Zero has no Audio on current community builds.

[Roman B]

Current community builds(Debian 12 and Ubuntu 24.04 as well) doesn't support audio codec.

Even after enabling codecs with armbian-config

 

ls /dev/snd  command displays:

 seq  timer

 

when expectation is to have

by-path  controlC0  pcmC0D0c  pcmC0D0p  seq  timer

 

Have anybody face with the same issue? any advises how to solve it?

 

[Roman B]

armbian-config app sets param overlay in /boot/armbianEnv.txt to the:

 

overlays=sun8i-h3-analog-codec

 

Fix is changing it to:

 

overlays=analog-codec

 

[robertoj]

thank you for posting the fix 👍🏽 
 

Can you show the contents of armbianEnv.txt?

 

Also find the sun8i-h3-analog-codec.dtbo file inside the /boot/dtb/… folder

 

you can always check that overlays are being used, by looking at the uboot messages, before loading the kernel.

https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Armbian_overlays/

[Roman B]

Hi @robertoj

 

My working armbianEnv.txt has the following content:

 

verbosity=1
bootlogo=false
console=both
disp_mode=1920x1080p60
overlay_prefix=sun8i-h3
overlays=analog-codec usbhost2 usbhost3
rootdev=UUID=0fbbb0fc-697c-46c9-a6b1-3c16cc045b69
rootfstype=ext4
usbstoragequirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u

 

[robertoj]

that looks like a normal armbianEnv.txt

 

If there was a "sun8i-h3-analog-codec" in the overlays line, that is pretty weird.