Dac Stopped working

Terry Booth

September 04, 2014 20:12

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I have A HifiBerry DAC on a Pi running volumio 1.41. Yesterday I tried playing and I got no sound. In Volumio, I can only see the ALSA output device. Trying to do anything with the DAC driver resulted in a 'background worker is busy' error.

I reimaged the SD card and I still have the same result. Therefore I suspect that the DAC may be the problem.

Can you suggest how I proceed?

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HiFiBerry team September 05, 2014 05:04

Hi Tery,

this is for sure a software problem as the hardware of the HiFiBerry DAC does not give any feedback to the operating system. What is the output of aplay -l?

Best regards
Daniel

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Terry Booth September 05, 2014 15:47

I've just replaced the DAC card with another. And the PI is now working. I'll try putting back the HiFiBerry.

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HiFiBerry team September 05, 2014 16:39

Hi Tery,

what is the output of aplay -l ?

Best regards
Daniel

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Terry Booth September 07, 2014 09:56
Weird. Back to normal now. aplay output
```
aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: sndrpihifiberry [snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac], device 0: HifiBerry DAC HiFi pcm5102a-hifi-0 []
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
root@volumio:~#
```
However, I accidentally reverted to Volumio 1.4 (from 1.41) in all the changes. So, it appears to have been something to do with the 1.41 image/SD card/software.

Thanks.
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