No HDMI sound on RetroPie 2.5.0 beta

Tagged: audio, RPi2, Sound

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02/17/2015 at 00:11 #87750

nschloe
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I installed RetroPie 2.5.0 beta this afternoon on my RPi2 and I’m not getting sound output, neither through HDMI nor through the jack connection. Sound settings (set via sudo raspi-config) are on the default setting, auto:
`
numid=3,iface=MIXER,name=’PCM Playback Route’
; type=INTEGER,access=rw——,values=1,min=0,max=2,step=0
: values=0
`
How to debug this?

02/17/2015 at 08:08 #87768

zlajac
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I have the same issue with RPi B+. 2.3 was working, but in 2.5 I get no sound at all.

02/17/2015 at 16:14 #87821

Floob
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Does it work if you set it to force audio to HDMI in the retropie setup script?

02/17/2015 at 20:52 #87863

nschloe
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> Does it work if you set it to force audio to HDMI in the retropie setup script?

Nope, no sound on either HDMI or Jack, independently of the setting (0,1,2).

02/17/2015 at 23:20 #87881

Floob
Member

Longshot, but have you tried a different TV or different HDMI cable?

02/18/2015 at 08:15 #87912

justinbeaird
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Sound doesn’t work for me either on the the firs raspberry pi (rpi1)

02/18/2015 at 08:53 #87915

justinbeaird
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In
/boot/config.txt
uncoment or add
hdmi_drive=2
then reboot
Fixed me up

Now only wish I could get my ps3 controller working in Mame and neogeo :(

02/19/2015 at 05:22 #88056

zlajac
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[quote=87915]In
/boot/config.txt
uncoment or add
hdmi_drive=2
then reboot
Fixed me up

Now only wish I could get my ps3 controller working in Mame and neogeo
[/quote]

Thank you! That fixed it!
I just edited the /boot/config.txt by using
sudo nano config.txt

What does ln do?

02/19/2015 at 06:02 #88061

Anonymous
Inactive

Welcome to Raspberry Pi. :-)

hdmi_drive=2 forces the Pi to output sound over the HDMI interface even when video is in a “DVI” compatible mode which ordinarily would not accept sound.

02/19/2015 at 23:57 #88217

nschloe
Participant

The problem was solved by upgrading to 2.6.0.

02/20/2015 at 04:18 #88241

kmhamel
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Ok I have 2.6 up and running but have no sound from hdmi. I looked in /boot for the config.txt file and nothing shows. Am I missing something, is this a hidden file that I need to tell to show?

02/20/2015 at 05:47 #88245

justinbeaird
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[quote=88241]Ok I have 2.6 up and running but have no sound from hdmi. I looked in /boot for the config.txt file and nothing shows. Am I missing something, is this a hidden file that I need to tell to show?[/quote]

hit f4 while in emulation station.
type
sudo nano /boot/config.txt
uncoment or add
hdmi_drive=2
then push ctrl+x to exit then type Y to save
then type
sudo reboot

06/24/2015 at 23:49 #100659

threepwood
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Because of the vga-adaptor I have to force the soundoutput over hdmi. Thats working, ok.

But is there a way to get the sound out of both? hdmi AND the jack?

Or, even better, is there a possibility that the RasPi puts out the sound forced through HDMI, but when I plug in Headphones in the jack, that it switches from the hdmi to the jack automatically?
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