RockPro64 Audio Jack - anyone got this to work?

[belveder79]

Creating a bug report/issue

I have searched the existing open and closed issues

Required Information

• DietPi version | cat /boot/dietpi/.version

G_DIETPI_VERSION_CORE=9
G_DIETPI_VERSION_SUB=6
G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC=1
G_GITBRANCH='master'
G_GITOWNER='MichaIng'

• Distro version | echo $G_DISTRO_NAME $G_RASPBIAN

bookworm

• Kernel version | uname --all

Linux DietPi 6.6.44-current-rockchip64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Aug  3 06:54:42 UTC 2024 aarch64 GNU/Linux

• Architecture | dpkg --print-architecture

arm64

• SBC model | echo $G_HW_MODEL_NAME or (EG: RPi3)

ROCKPro64 (aarch64)

• Power supply used | (EG: 5V 1A RAVpower)
  12V/5A stock
• SD card used | (EG: SanDisk ultra)
  none/emmc

It seems that Audio on the RockPro64 boards is an evergreen topic, but no solution has been posted that works. Therefore the question:

Has ANYONE got audio on the 3.5mm audio jack to work on this board, and if yes, how is the procedure to make that work?

I have already tried to work with alsamixer (enabling/increasing sound), aplay, found something about pulseaudio, and so on… nothing I found made it work.

root@DietPi:~# aplay -L
null
    Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
hw:CARD=Analog,DEV=0
    Analog, 
    Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=Analog,DEV=0
    Analog, 
    Hardware device with all software conversions
default:CARD=Analog
    Analog, 
    Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=Analog
    Analog, 
    Default Audio Device
dmix:CARD=Analog,DEV=0
    Analog, 
    Direct sample mixing device
hw:CARD=hdmisound,DEV=0
    hdmi-sound, ff8a0000.i2s-i2s-hifi i2s-hifi-0
    Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=hdmisound,DEV=0
    hdmi-sound, ff8a0000.i2s-i2s-hifi i2s-hifi-0
    Hardware device with all software conversions
default:CARD=hdmisound
    hdmi-sound, ff8a0000.i2s-i2s-hifi i2s-hifi-0
    Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=hdmisound
    hdmi-sound, ff8a0000.i2s-i2s-hifi i2s-hifi-0
    Default Audio Device
dmix:CARD=hdmisound,DEV=0
    hdmi-sound, ff8a0000.i2s-i2s-hifi i2s-hifi-0
    Direct sample mixing device

root@DietPi:~# lsmod | grep snd
snd_soc_hdmi_codec     20480  1
snd_soc_simple_card    20480  0
snd_soc_audio_graph_card    16384  0
snd_soc_es8316         36864  1
snd_soc_rockchip_i2s    24576  3
snd_soc_spdif_tx       12288  0
snd_soc_simple_card_utils    24576  2 snd_soc_audio_graph_card,snd_soc_simple_card
snd_soc_core          208896  7 snd_soc_spdif_tx,snd_soc_hdmi_codec,snd_soc_audio_graph_card,snd_soc_simple_card_utils,snd_soc_rockchip_i2s,snd_soc_simple_card,snd_soc_es8316
snd_compress           24576  1 snd_soc_core
snd_pcm_dmaengine      12288  1 snd_soc_core
snd_pcm               106496  6 snd_soc_hdmi_codec,snd_compress,snd_soc_simple_card_utils,snd_soc_core,snd_soc_es8316,snd_pcm_dmaengine
snd_timer              36864  1 snd_pcm
snd                    77824  5 snd_soc_hdmi_codec,snd_timer,snd_compress,snd_soc_core,snd_pcm
soundcore              12288  1 snd

Any ideas are welcome…

[belveder79]

ok, it seems to kind of work if there is a proper setup in the alsamixer and the aplay is called correctly:

speaker-test -D "hw:0,0" -c2 -twav

aplay --device="plughw:0,0" out.wav