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HifiBerry DAC and Kali Linux on PI3

Peter Miller

March 25, 2016 02:56

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Hi there,

first of all must say i am a complete beginner in Linux and the PI 3 as well, my first tests with all this suff but i am impressed how good all works.

I took a challenge today and tried Kali Linux on my PI 3 which is quiet a beast i think. But also a very nice OS i think with all its features.

But however its not so easy for a beginner. But this forum of course is about HifiBerry DAC.

Just wanted to share how i got the DAC+ Pro running in Kali. Googled around a bit and found these two key things that made it running then :

first i have done this : http://hackerzelite.blogspot.de/2014/03/fix-sound-driver-on-kali-linux.html   

It seems to be a main problem in Kali Linux.

And then done this : http://rageweb.info/2013/11/07/bootconfig-txt-in-kali/ 

to add

dtoverlay=hifiberry-dacplus

into the boot config. So it is all a bit different.

But finally i got it working half only (MPlayer does fine) It shows up and works but not for all codecs i think yet. I guess its the same kernel thing as it was for others. I tried already disable Bluetooth same as in the HifiBerry Team suggestion post a few days ago.

But anyway i just wanted to share this for others who might like to try kali out. I guess this would never be fully supported with the DACs but who knows :)

 

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  HiFiBerry team March 25, 2016 06:56

  Hi Peter,

  the codec have nothing to do with the sound card driver. Decoding different audio formats is done by the player software. You might try mplayer which supports a large variety of codes out-of-the-box.

  Best regards,
  Daniel

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  Peter Miller March 25, 2016 07:18

  Yip thx Daniel,

   

  well i only have problems like playing some youtube videos for example in browser, they suddenly do the same thing as in openelec before it was fixed, causing only noise.. i dont know what that is.. i downloaded the video then, tried to play it in mplayer too. Then i do not get audio only video. So i guess it must be something with the codecs somehow.

  some play all right in youtube some cause noise... well strange thing.. But at least plays all FLACs or MP3s or also Hires on MPlayer that is the main thing.

  but nothing for you to look into i think only if you wish :) as i said kali is a wonderful OS which i prefer to work with ( no i do not hack ) :-D just from the possibilities it offers and now with the Pi3 it seems usable.

  anyway the next thing i will try is your installer on the website and get maybe openelec on a second Card.. but i am sure that will work perfectly :)

  so keep up the good work :)

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  Peter Miller March 26, 2016 02:51

  Quick update but then i shut up :)

  I forgot to configure the /etc/asound.conf  after doing this it played all okay in MPlayer, strangly some Videos still cause noise but only in the Iceweasel and i can not see why.. all same codec and all, one plays the other not. Mplayer gives the exact same output in the console. Weired that.

  And one more thing want to add here. I installed SMplayer and also SMtube then. That can be set at a certain playback quality and you dont have all the slow downs of the browser when looking for youtube videos. For all you Raspberry guys i recommend to test it, runs wonderful up to maybe 360p but that is okay i think to watch some :)

  happy testing then and happy eastern of course :)