How to enable sound on a server version of Armbian

[ubhelbr]

I am running an unmodified Server version of Armbian Linux v6.12 (Ubuntu 24.04) on an Orange Pi 5 Plus.

I need to play sounds using the headphone jack on my SBC. Unfortunately the ES8388 sound chip is not recognized, the aplay -l output is as follows:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Analog [Analog], device 0: fe470000.i2s-es8328-hifi-analog es8328-hifi-analog-0 [fe470000.i2s-es8328-hifi-analog es8328-hifi-analog-0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

The correct output on desktop systems should like this (and it was like this on Desktop Armbian). 

What should I do to enable the ES8388 sound chip while staying on a server OS? Change something in the boot environment maybe? Install drivers?

[Werner]

short version: switch to vendor kernel.

 

long version: mainline support for rk3588 is far from being feature-complete. Audio probably hasn't been mainlined yet. Check https://gitlab.collabora.com/hardware-enablement/rockchip-3588/notes-for-rockchip-3588/-/blob/main/mainline-status.md

 

If you need most things to work vendor is the way to go for now which is based on Rockchip SDK.

[Sobik]

Dear Werner,

 

I recently installed Armbian 25.2.3 KDE Neon with vendor kernel 6.1.99 on OPi 5 Plus, and the sound does not work either. It apparently has something to do with the kernel version: switching to 6.1.75 solves the problem. Going to the higher vendor kernel version causes the problem to reappear. Is there a fix for 6.1.99?

[Werner]

13 hours ago, Sobik said:

Is there a fix for 6.1.99?

None I am aware of. If you find something feel free to share.

Regressions happen all the time.

[Sobik]

Thanks for the reply. Do you know if and how it is possible to submit a bug on such a regression?

[Werner]

You already did by opening this topic.

[Владимир Белый]

same bug
installed Armbian 25.2.3 debian-12 with vendor kernel 6.1.99, no sound. Tested all latest kernels - 6.1.99, 6.1.84, 6.1.75. Only on 6.1.75 jack sound works.

[Hooutoo]

Looks like most of the mainline issues will be resolved with the release of Kernel 6.16 rc1 which will hopefully be in the nest couple of weeks. I'm running Fedora rawhide with 6.15 rc7 and the only thing I'm missing is analog sound which collabora says should be in 6.16 rc1. I have dual monitors, sound over hdmi so the last biggy for me is analog sound. The reason I'm running Fedora is theses guys  are pretty guick to release the latest mainline kernel.

[Igor]

3 hours ago, Hooutoo said:

theses guys  are pretty guick to release the latest mainline kernel.

 

Automation, not guys  And they it can't be quicker then others elsewhere.

Armbian adds a value on top of this. We have our EDGE kernels attached to latest mainline with additional stuff from Collabora and additional stuff from our own work. They are released daily in beta channels, which here doesn't have any fancy name (rawhide).

 

https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/config/sources/families/include/rockchip64_common.inc#L36

https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/config/sources/mainline-kernel.conf.sh#L7-L14

[Hooutoo]

You seem to take offense at anything that is not rah rah armbian. I can assure you that no offense was intended. Btw, I'm well aware of autonation but the guy that does most of their mainline compiling is a guy named J Forbes and I believe there is another guy who's name I can't remember off the top of my head. The main reason for my previous post was to find out if anyone has analog sound on the opi5+ when running mainline/uefi but apparently that slip right by you.  

 

Perhaps you should read my post again!