On doing hdmi display testing I noticed that there was no sound. After some command line probing, I saw that there was a very good reason for this. “Note Device 4” below in output of “inxi -b --usb”:
System:
Host: manjaro-arm Kernel: 6.4.16-1-MANJARO-ARM arch: aarch64 bits: 64 Console: pty pts/1
Distro: Manjaro ARM
Machine:
Type: ARM System: Pine64 PinePhone (1.2) details: N/A serial: 8a8e18f54402f7fe
Battery:
ID-1: axp20x-battery charge: 49% condition: N/A/8.2 Wh
CPU:
Info: quad core Model N/A [MCP] speed (MHz): avg: 648 min/max: 648/1152
Graphics:
Device-1: sun50i-a64-mali driver: lima v: kernel
Device-2: sun50i-a64-dw-hdmi driver: sun8i_dw_hdmi v: N/A
Device-3: sun50i-a64-display-engine driver: sun4i_drm v: N/A
Device-4: sun9i-a80-hdmi-audio driver: N/A
Display: server: Xorg v: 1.21.1.10 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.3 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
dri: sun4i-drm gpu: lima,sun8i_dw_hdmi,sun4i_drm tty: 126x71
API: OpenGL Message: GL data unavailable in console, glxinfo missing.
Network:
Device-1: mmc-pwrseq-simple driver: pwrseq_simple
Device-2: sun50i-a64-emac driver: N/A
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 28.91 GiB used: 4.76 GiB (16.5%)
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: full speed or root hub ports: 1 rev: 2.0
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: full speed or root hub ports: 1 rev: 2.0
Device-1: 2-1:2 info: Quectel Wireless Solutions EC25 LTE modem type: vendor specific
rev: 2.0
Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: full speed or root hub ports: 1 rev: 1.1
Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: full speed or root hub ports: 1 rev: 1.1
Info:
Processes: 174 Uptime: 48m Memory: total: 3 GiB available: 2.92 GiB used: 1.01 GiB (34.4%)
Init: systemd Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.31
So basically, we have visual function to hdmi but no hdmi audio driver to push sound. Some suggestions to remediate this would be welcome; such as, do we have a “sun9i-a80-hdmi-audio” hardware driver?
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