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HifiBerry and Arch Linux

András Szekeres

January 16, 2014 11:15

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Has anyone experience with HifiBerry under Arch Linux?
I have just soldered my HifiBerry, but i can not make it work under Arch Linux. I tried it with PiCorePlayer, they worked fine, so it is not a hardware issue. Can anyone help me?

thanks,
András

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  HiFiBerry team January 16, 2014 12:04

  Hi Andras,
  
  we don't have any experience with Arch Linux. But I guess, you have to compile your own kernel for this. Did you try this already?
  
  Best regards
  Daniel Matuschek
  
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  András Szekeres January 16, 2014 12:16

  Hi Daniel,
  
  i haven't tried that yet, i hoped i can avoid it ;). I have not much experience with Arch Linux, but i would like to keep using it for squeezelite. I have tested earlier squeezelite with a cheap USB sound card on PiCorePlayer, Raspyfi and Arch and i found Arch to be to best for my purpose. Now I want to replace the usb sound card with HifiBerry. I think I will try to compile my own kernel.
  
  best regards,
  András
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  HiFiBerry team January 16, 2014 17:55

  Hi Andras,
  
  what was the reason not to use piCorePlayer or Raspyfi (now volumio)? If you had problems with sound on the USB sound card, this is not a problem with the HiFiBerry DAC anymore. If you don't want to compile your own kernel, Raspbian works well.
  
  Best regards
  Daniel
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  András Szekeres January 16, 2014 18:22

  piCorePlayer (the newest one included) does not work with my nano usb wifi dongle, only wired works.
  Raspyfi: i tried to use squeezelite on it, but that sounded very bad compared to the other two options i was experimenting with. It sounded even with it's own player the worst (probably that was specific for my case, so this in not a generic judgement).
  
  I want to stick to squeezelite as i use LMS (i use an Squeezebox Touch as well). I will either compile or by a supported nano dongle for piCorePlayer.
  
  Best regards,
  András
  
  
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  Erwan Loisant August 21, 2014 18:35

  I got the Hifiberry DAC working on Arch, it's pretty easy now because the module is in the kernel. I don't think it was the case in January, you had to compile the module, so it was a bit trickier at that time.
  
  Just follow these instructions, it's about RuneAudio but being based on Arch Linux it's the same:
  http://devicecontext.blogspot.fr/2014/03/runeaudio-with-hifiberry.html