Hey folks,
after trying almost every possible Solution I still have no sound using the Hifiberry digi.
I'm using a Raspberry PI with raspbmc 3.12.31 #2 PREEMT Wed Oct 29 09:24:56 UTC2014 armv6l GNU/Linux and XBMC 13.2 git20140901-867305b (Compiled: Oct 31 2014).
I configured within the help of the installation guide. LEDs are working and SPDIF is working (red light).
At the beginning I could see 2 soundcards:
aplay – l
card 1: sndrpihifiberry [snd_rpi_hifiberry_dac], device 0: HifiBerry DAC HiFi pcm5102a-hifi-0 []
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 2: sndrpihifiber_1 [snd_rpi_hifiberry_digi], device 0: HifiBerry Digi HiFi wm8804-spdif-0 []
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
At this time it was only possible to activate the hifiberry DAC in the XBMC setup. After some researches I found out that I had to disable the DAC module so I did:
http://www.bilder-upload.eu/show.php?file=fe6166-1417422231.png
After rebooting aplay -l just showed the digi soundcard and it could be configured in XBMC:
http://www.bilder-upload.eu/show.php?file=e1735a-1417422663.jpg
But still no sound. :( I also tried activating and deactivating passtrough, but it didnt work.
Testing the soundcard in rasbmc shows the following:
http://www.bilder-upload.eu/show.php?file=eb828e-1417422274.png
So I tried the test image which plays a sound for 5 minutes
The result was the following message (and of course no sound): "Failed to set WM8804 SYSCLK, unsupported samplerate
http://www.bilder-upload.eu/show.php?file=a467dd-1417533802.jpg
After that I tried the preconfigured OpenElec image offered by the hifiberry site. That didnt work too.
aplay - l just showed that no soundcard was found.
Whats the problem? Do you have any more ideas?
thx Eric
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HiFiBerry team Hi,
you need to remove the HiFiBerry DAC driver and only load the Digi driver. Current Raspbmc still has a bug and always load the DAC driver. The only way to disable it is to delete the DAC driver file.
For beginners I recommend the pre-configured OpenElec image from here:
http://www.hifiberry.com/guides/sd-card-images/
(disable automatic updates)
Best regards
Daniel -
Eric Meyer Hey Daniel,
thx for your response but I already did that. I renamed the DAC driver as you can see on this picture:
http://www.bilder-upload.eu/show.php?file=fe6166-1417422231.png
After that only the digi was shown when I tried aplay -l.
And I also tried the OpenElec image from your page but when I typed in aplay -l it said "no soundcard". XBMC also just showed HDMI and Analoque.
And I also tried your test image which plays the sound but I git the following error and no sound.
http://www.bilder-upload.eu/show.php?file=a467dd-1417533802.jpg
Any other ideas? Could it be a hardware problem?
Best regards
Eric -
HiFiBerry team Hi,
is it a HiFiBerry Digi or Digi+? In case it is a Digi on an "old" Raspberry Pi, check the solderings on the P5 header. Usually this is the cause for a problem like this.
Best regards
Daniel -
Eric Meyer Hey Daniel,
that worked out fine. Now I have sound trough the optical output.
But unfortunately the coax output doesnt work. Do you have any more ideas?
thx Eric -
HiFiBerry team Hi Eric,
both ports are connected on the same output of the chip. It is possible, but relatively unlikely that one is working, but not the other. If you are really sure that this is not a cabling problem and the electrical input of your DAC is working correctly, you need to send the board to us for further inspection.
Best regards
Daniel -
Eric Meyer Hey Daniel,
it was my fault. my amp was configured wrong.
Now all works fine. Thx for your help.
Best regards Eric -
sgooriah Hi Daniel,
i'm facing almost the same issue as Eric, i'm getting white noise instead of audio from the output of the Digi. I'm assuming that this is related to Raspbmc always loading the DAC driver. Please let me know how i can get rid of the DAC drivers through an SSH session ?
Thxs
Sanjay -
Eric Meyer Hi,
Sanjay as you can see on the pic: http://www.bilder-upload.eu/show.php?file=fe6166-1417422231.png
you have to go to "/lib/modules/3.12.31/kernel/sound/soc/bcm"
and delete or rename the <b>snd-soc-hifiberry-dac.ko</b> module.
After a reboot it should just show the hifiberry digi in your xbmc menu.
kind regards Eric -
sgooriah Hi Eric, Thanks a bunch, works like a charm !!! Cheers
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