How to turn on souncard in Orange Pi Zero 2W?

[sminder]

I installed the image https://dl.armbian.com/orangepizero2w/Bookworm_current_minimal on my Orange Pi Zero 2W board. But when I tied to check sound from the headphone interface on the expansion board I have a problem:
 

user@orangepizero2w:~$ aplay -l
aplay: device_list:274: no soundcards found...

 

There is no chance to turn it on even through DTB overlay in armbian-config because there is no sound card in there.

How to make sound work in this board with Armbian?

[Werner]

moved

[mike19]

The sound is deactivated in the device tree.

I activated it directly in the device tree. It may not be a nice solution, but it works for now.
I can try to write an overlay as soon as I will find some time.

You can also try the image for the orange pi zero 3

Edited April 6 by mike19

[robertoj]

Can you tell us what you did?

 

diff old.dts new.dts

[mike19]

You can see my changes in bolt

 

codec@05096000 {

   #sound-dai-cells = <0x00>;

   compatible = "allwinner,sun50i-h616-codec";

   reg = <0x5096000 0x31c>;

   interrupts = <0x00 0x3a 0x04>;

   clocks = <0x02 0x5d 0x02 0x5b 0x02 0x5c>;

   clock-names = "apb\0audio-codec-1x\0audio-codec-4x";

   resets = <0x02 0x24>;

   dmas = <0x0d 0x06>;

   dma-names = "tx";

   status = "okay";

   phandle = <0x50>;

};

 

ahub_dam_plat@5097000 {

#sound-dai-cells = <0x00>;

compatible = "allwinner,sunxi-snd-plat-ahub_dam";

reg = <0x5097000 0x1000>;

resets = <0x02 0x25>;

clocks = <0x02 0x5b 0x02 0x5c 0x02 0x5e 0x02 0x5f>;

clock-names = "clk_pll_audio\0clk_pll_audio_4x\0clk_audio_hub\0clk_bus_audio_hub";

status = "okay";

phandle = <0x51>;

};

 

ahub1_plat {

   #sound-dai-cells = <0x00>;

   compatible = "allwinner,sunxi-snd-plat-ahub";

   apb_num = <0x01>;

   dmas = <0x0d 0x04 0x0d 0x04>;

   dma-names = "tx\0rx";

   playback_cma = <0x80>;

   capture_cma = <0x80>;

   tx_fifo_size = <0x80>;

   rx_fifo_size = <0x80>;

   tdm_num = <0x01>;

   tx_pin = <0x00>;

   rx_pin = <0x00>;

   status = "okay";

   phandle = <0x0f>;

};

 

ahub1_mach {

   compatible = "allwinner,sunxi-snd-mach";

   soundcard-mach,name = "HDMI";

   soundcard-mach,format = "i2s";

   soundcard-mach,frame-master = <0x0e>;

   soundcard-mach,bitclock-master = <0x0e>;

   soundcard-mach,slot-num = <0x02>;

   soundcard-mach,slot-width = <0x20>;

   status = "okay";

   phandle = <0x52>;

 

   soundcard-mach,cpu {

      sound-dai = <0x0f>;

      soundcard-mach,pll-fs = <0x04>;

     soundcard-mach,mclk-fs = <0x00>;

     phandle = <0x0e>;

   };

 

   soundcard-mach,codec {

      sound-dai = <0x10>;

      phandle = <0x53>;

   };

};

 

gpu@1800000 {

   compatible = "allwinner,sun50i-h616-mali\0arm,mali-bifrost";

   reg = <0x1800000 0x40000>;

   interrupts = <0x00 0x5f 0x04 0x00 0x60 0x04 0x00 0x61 0x04>;

   interrupt-names = "job\0mmu\0gpu";

   clocks = <0x02 0x23 0x02 0x24>;

   clock-names = "core\0bus";

   resets = <0x02 0x03>;

   status = "okay";

   mali-supply = <0x11>;

   phandle = <0x54>;

};

[mike19]

You also have to do as described here: https://dietpi.com/forum/t/no-sound-card-detected-for-opi-zero-2w/20133/26

 

/usr/bin/amixer -c 0 set 'Left Output Mixer DACL' 100% unmute

/usr/bin/amixer -c 0 set 'Left Output Mixer DACR' 100% unmute

/usr/bin/amixer -c 0 set 'Right Output Mixer DACL' 100% unmute

/usr/bin/amixer -c 0 set 'Right Output Mixer DACR' 100% unmute

 

[ZjemCiKolege]

Or install the Orange Pi Zero 3 image with the 6.13.7 edge kernel. On the Zero 2W image, the edge kernel doesn't boot.

[sminder]

Thanks guys for your suggestions. I've just tried to use Orange Pi 3 image (Armbian_community_25.5.0-trunk.399_Orangepizero3_bookworm_current_6.12.20_minimal.img) but something went wrong.

The audio device is visible in a system:

 

aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: audiocodec [audiocodec], device 0: CDC PCM Codec-0 [CDC PCM Codec-0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: HDMI [HDMI], device 0: ahub_plat-i2s-hifi i2s-hifi-0 [ahub_plat-i2s-hifi i2s-hifi-0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

 

but I still can't play anything because of the error:

 

aplay -D hw:0,0 /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono
aplay: pcm_write:2127: write error: Input/output error

 

I can't find a release with 6.13.7 kernel.

Edited Sunday at 04:50 PM by sminder