New user: aplay: no soundcards found

Hi all,

I just received my new hifiberry-digi and I tried to install and connect it.

But I was uncertain about pins R1-R10, since I have no plugs for them on my raspberry.

So I plugged only the main plug.

When installing software, I started from a newly installed Raspbian (kernel 3.10.25) and I followed every step in .

But no sound was heard and I have the following messages:

 ./check-system.dac
Checking system

Linux raspberrypi 3.12.18+ #680 PREEMPT Sat May 3 19:29:46 BST 2014 armv6l GNU/Linux
Kernel: 3.12.18+
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 7 (wheezy)"
NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="7"
VERSION="7 (wheezy)"
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian
ANSI_COLOR="1;31"
HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs"

Checking drivers

snd_soc_bcm2708_i2s enbaled in /etc/modules
snd_soc_bcm2708_i2s loaded
bcm2708_dmaengine enbaled in /etc/modules
bcm2708_dmaengine loaded
snd_soc_wm8804 enbaled in /etc/modules
snd_soc_wm8804 loaded
snd_soc_hifiberry_digi enbaled in /etc/modules
snd_soc_hifiberry_digi loaded
Sound cards
aplay: device_list:252: no soundcards found...
ALSA lib confmisc.c:768:(parse_card) cannot find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:392:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1251:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:4241:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer returned error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib conf.c:4720:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2217:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
aplay: main:682: audio open error: No such file or directory

In dmesg I have th following lines :

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ dmesg |grep hifiberry
[   15.316494] snd-hifiberry-digi snd-hifiberry-digi.0: ASoC: failed to instantiate card -1
[   15.336545] snd-hifiberry-digi snd-hifiberry-digi.0: snd_soc_register_card() failed: -1
[   15.347474] snd-hifiberry-digi: probe of snd-hifiberry-digi.0 failed with error -1

Can you help me?

Thanks :)

Clément Roques May 08, 2014 16:18

HiFiBerry team May 08, 2014 16:21

Dear Clement,

unfortunately I can't see the picture. But from what I read, you might not have soldered the P5 connector onto the Raspberry. This needs to be done. This is shown in this video:
https://vimeo.com/79610450

Also check, the the I2C module is not blacklisted in /etc/modprobe.conf/...

Best regards
Daniel

Clément Roques May 09, 2014 09:25

Hello

Thank you for this answer and the video link.
Unfortunately I can't soldered the P5 plug because My Raspberry doies not have any hole to connect it.

I understand that there are different versions of the Raspberry , and mine has no P5 connector; is it possible ?

Thanks for your lights,
Clément.

Christi Scarborough May 13, 2014 21:41

Early Model B's did not have a P5 connector. Yes, it's possible.

HiFiBerry team May 14, 2014 13:48

Looks like you have an very old Raspberry Pi. In this case, the board will not work. If you buy a new one, it should have the P5 connector as all Raspberry Pi's since more than a year come with this connector.

Best regards
Daniel

Clément Roques May 14, 2014 14:51

You are both right, my Pi is one of the first model B.
And now I must think about buying a recent one, with P5 connector.

Thanks all :)
Clément

New user: aplay: no soundcards found

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