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hetixo

July 15, 2015 20:51

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Hi

Am a complete and utter newbie, and try as i might with all the installation guides, there is always a pre-requisite of knowledge that I don't have.

I am currently trying to install the hifiberry DAC on my pi 2.

After doing the update for rasbian i get stuck....

under 'configure the software it says to add the few lines to the file/etc/modules?

where is this file?

any very basic and simple instructions will be most welcome!

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  HiFiBerry team July 16, 2015 06:15

  Hi,
  
  /etc/modules is in /etc. You can just edit it. However, with the latest Linux, you need to configure /boot/config.txt as documented here:
  https://www.hifiberry.com/guides/configuring-linux-3-18-x/
  
  Best regards
  Daniel
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  hetixo July 16, 2015 09:48

  thank you.
  
  how do i get to "/etc/modprobe.d/raspi-blacklist.conf on Raspbian"?
  
  H
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  HiFiBerry team July 16, 2015 12:56

  just use your editor with the file name, e.g.
  nano /etc/modprobe.d/raspi-blacklist.conf
  
  Best regards
  Daniel
  
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  Stuart MacLean July 16, 2015 12:59

  Hi
  
  From the command line type
  
  cd /etc/modprobe.d
  
  in order to get to the /etc/modprobe.d. Then type
  
  nano raspi-blacklist.conf
  
  this will launch the text editor 'nano' that open and edit the raspi-blacklist.conf file for you, if it exists, and from there you can edit the file.
  
  Note, if you're using the latest version of Raspbian (their latest version from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/ is dated 05-05-2015) then it runs the 3.18 Linux kernel. This means that using "Device Tree Overlay" configuration should be sufficient by adding the line to /boot/config.txt
  
  dtoverlay=hifiberry-dacplus
  
  in order for your system to see and load the DAC device drivers.
  
  I see that the Raspbian distribution no longer has an /etc/modprobe.d/raspi-blacklist.conf file (probably because of this new device tree overlay functionality)... Hence this particular configuration step maybe redundant with regards to the latest Raspbian distribution.
  
  You can confirm if the device has been loaded using the following command
  
  aplay -l
  
  and you should so hopefully see an output something like (in this case my setup is using the Digi with Raspberry Pi2)
  
  

  **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
  card 0: sndrpihifiberry [snd_rpi_hifiberry_digi], device 0: HifiBerry Digi HiFi wm8804-spdif-0 []
    Subdevices: 1/1
    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  card 1: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 0: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA]
    Subdevices: 8/8
    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
    Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
    Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
    Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
    Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
    Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
    Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
    Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
  card 1: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 1: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 IEC958/HDMI]
    Subdevices: 1/1
    Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

  
  
  
  Note that in my configuration I have not removed the snd_bcm2835 line from /etc/modules, hence the onboard sound cards are listed.
  
  Hope this helps,
  
  Stuart
  
  
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  hetixo July 16, 2015 14:11

  ok thanks Stuart
  
  I'm in Nano editor but the page is blank? At the top it says File: raspi-blacklist.conf but there is no code on the page?
  
  H
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  hetixo July 16, 2015 14:27

  so i've typed in aplay -l and it's come up similar to yours but no sign of DAC
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  HiFiBerry team July 16, 2015 15:10

  Hi,
  
  what is the output of the command:
  
  cat /boot/config.txt
  
  Best regards
  Daniel
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  hetixo July 16, 2015 15:20

  bash: cat/boot/config.txt: No such file or directory
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  HiFiBerry team July 16, 2015 17:12

  There must be a space between cat and /boot/config.txt
  
  Best regards
  Daniel
  
  BTW: Did you try our image with auto-detection from here:
  https://www.hifiberry.com/guides/sd-card-images/
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  hetixo July 16, 2015 17:14

  in nano, cat/boot/config.txt just comes up with a blank page
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  HiFiBerry team July 16, 2015 17:25

  You should not use nano, just post the output of the command cat /boot/config.txt
  This will display the content of the file /boot/config.txt
  
  As you are new to Linux, Raspbian might not be the optimal distribution for you. What exactly do you plan to do with the Raspberry Pi? Maybe another distribution might be easier to setup for your specific use case.
  
  Best regards
  Daniel
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  hetixo July 16, 2015 18:13

  ok
  
  I've rerun that command (think i didn't have a space there when i tried it before)
  
  at the bottom of the code it says dtoverlay=hifiberry-dacplus
  
  I use my pi predominantly as a music centre but the sound output was not good enough so I bought one of these.
  
  
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  HiFiBerry team July 17, 2015 05:12

  Hi,
  
  what software do you run on your Raspbian? Did you have a look at audio-distributions like RuneAudio, Volumio or Max2Play? With these you can configure everything from a web GUI.
  
  What is the output of the command
  sudo vcdbg log msg
  
  Best regards
  Daniel
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  hetixo July 17, 2015 10:17

  ok, don't know how to print screen image, unless it's the same as Windows.
  
  But within the code i can actually see it says; Loaded Overlay 'hifiberry-dacplus'
  
  I am going to look at the image thing you suggested?
  
  The software that came with raspbian is the only one on there that plays files, so I guess i'm using the standard one.
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  HiFiBerry team July 17, 2015 11:28

  Hi,
  
  if you want to play music from an network share or a directly attached USB stick or hard disk, have a look at RuneAudio, PiMusicBox or Volumio. These are quite easy to configure using a web interface.
  
  Best regards
  Daniel
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  hetixo July 17, 2015 13:55

  easy to configure the DAC to?
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  HiFiBerry team July 17, 2015 14:57

  With these distributions, you usually only have to select it in the settings menu and reboot.
  
  Best regards
  Daniel
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  hetixo July 17, 2015 15:25

  Ok thank for all your help, unfortunately SourceForge is down so I can't install volumio or runeaudio unless i can find another file host.
  
  kind regards
  
  hetixo