Sound driver on Raspi 4

Axel Braun axel.braun at gmx.de
Fri Sep 25 11:37:06 EDT 2020


Hello Stefan,

Am Freitag, 25. September 2020, 14:13:12 CEST schrieben Sie:
> Am 25.09.20 um 09:39 schrieb Axel Braun:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was trying to get sound out of a Raspi 4 using openSUSE Tumbleweed
> > (currently 5.8.x kernel), but no driver could be determined that worked.
>
> since this is a mainline kernel list, we cannot give information about
> specific distributions.

Sure.
The focus was more on the latest kernel than on TW.

> > Can anyone advise me about the correct driver, and when this hits the
> > standard kernel?
>
> AFAIK mainline kernel won't have audio support for RPi 4 until Linux
> 5.10. The HDMI audio support has been merged in linux-next recently.
>
> bcm2835-audio (VCHIQ audio) for the jack isn't supported yet and i don't
> have any information who is working on this.

By chance, do you know if the jack output works in Raspian?

Thanks
Axel





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