August 7Aug 7 Hi Could anyone assist me in getting sound output on my Tinkerboard S? product: Rockchip RK3288 Asus Tinker Board S v26.2.1 for Tinker Board running Armbian Linux 6.18.35-current-rockchip $ aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 48000 Hz, Mono No output on the connected earphones. I don't know where to start to debug the problem. Any aideas anyone? Thanks Chris
August 7Aug 7 Providing logs with armbianmonitor -u helps with troubleshooting and significantly raises chances that issue gets addressed.
August 7Aug 7 So it it this one: https://tinker-board.asus.com/series/tinker-board-s.html In the log I see 'USB Audio', also HDMI audio and there is a 3.5mm jack. I am not sure what audio and what the goal is. HDMI audio on Rockchips can be tricky, I have seen simulator kernel problem messages, depends also on which bootloader. Then I am not sure if on-board eMMC plays a role or not. The SD-card mmc0 is properly initialized but there is also mmc1 and mmc2 Can you post output of sudo lsblk And if eMMC is there, there might be old U-Boot there. Further there is quite some repeated registerdumps, that is not a good sign, but don't really understand why that happens.
August 7Aug 7 Author My bad, it's the first ever TB, without S https://tinker-board.asus.com/series/tinker-board.html And this one has no eMMC.
August 7Aug 7 Solution Hello, normally audio on Asus Tinkerboard works out of the box. I have not tested HDMI audio for a long time because I don't have a suitable monitor. It should work, but I can't bet on it. Analog audio also should work. You need to set the correct device to aplay because the default may be set to HDMI (or SPDIF). The command aplay -L will give you the various ALSA outputs you can play on, find something like plughw:CARD=analog,DEV=0 and then use -D aplay flag to specify the device. You should get something similar to this: aplay -D plughw:CARD=analog,DEV=0 my-audio-file.wav
August 7Aug 7 Author Thank you jock! After some trial and error aplay -D hw:CARD=OnBoard,DEV=2 sound.wav works. Now I have to imagine how to play the sound via bluetooth...
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