Enabling audio in minimal distro

[Sebas_Ledesma]

Hi:

I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with kernel 4.9.241-69 minimal distro.
I'm trying to enable audio, so I did:

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sudo apt install alsa-base alsa-utils pulseaudio

and lsusb shows the

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Bus 001 Device 003: ID 08bb:29c0 Texas Instruments PCM2900C Audio CODEC

but aplay -l reports:

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aplay: device_list:274: no soundcards found...

lsmod output is:

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Module                  Size  Used by
cpufreq_ondemand       20480  0
cpufreq_powersave      16384  0
cpufreq_userspace      16384  0
cpufreq_conservative    16384  0
amvdec_ports          196608  0
i2c_meson_master       20480  0
sch_fq_codel           20480  2
amvdec_vp9            122880  0
amvdec_vc1             65536  0
amvdec_real            45056  0
amvdec_mmpeg4          40960  0
amvdec_mpeg4           65536  0
amvdec_mpeg12         106496  0
amvdec_mmjpeg          28672  0
amvdec_mjpeg           40960  0
amvdec_h265           147456  0
amvdec_h264mvc         57344  0
amvdec_mh264          159744  0
amvdec_h264           147456  0
amvdec_avs             69632  0
stream_input          180224  9 amvdec_h265,amvdec_mh264,amvdec_h264mvc,amvdec_ports,amvdec_real,amvdec_vp9,amvdec_h264,amvdec_mpeg12,amvdec_avs
decoder_common        188416  15 amvdec_h265,amvdec_mjpeg,amvdec_mh264,amvdec_mmpeg4,amvdec_h264mvc,amvdec_mmjpeg,amvdec_ports,amvdec_real,stream_input,amvdec_vp9,amvdec_h264,amvdec_mpeg12,amvdec_avs,amvdec_vc1,amvdec_mpeg4
firmware               28672  15 amvdec_h265,amvdec_mjpeg,amvdec_mh264,amvdec_mmpeg4,amvdec_h264mvc,amvdec_mmjpeg,decoder_common,amvdec_real,stream_input,amvdec_vp9,amvdec_h264,amvdec_mpeg12,amvdec_avs,amvdec_vc1,amvdec_mpeg4
media_clock            45056  10 amvdec_h265,amvdec_mh264,decoder_common,amvdec_ports,firmware,stream_input,amvdec_vp9,amvdec_h264,amvdec_mpeg12,amvdec_avs
ip_tables              28672  0
x_tables               49152  1 ip_tables
ipv6                  466944  38
spidev                 20480  2
spi_meson_spicc        20480  0

So, what I'm missing to enable the audio subsystem?

Thanks in advance,
Sebas

[odroid]

Seems that "snd_usb_audio" module driver is missing.
We will add it in the next update.

[Sebas_Ledesma]

Thanks.

1 - There is a way to manually add it? I've tried:

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sudo insmod snd_usb_audio

but i get:

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insmod: ERROR: could not load module snd_usb_audio: No such file or directory

2 - Expected release date for the update of the "minimal image" wich includes snd_usb_audio? In the meantime i will switch back to the standard image.

Sebas

[Sebas_Ledesma]

Ubuntu Mate and Minimal image share a common Kernel package.
Wait a couple of days. We need to rebuild kernel and test it.

[mdrjr]

Can you please post a full dmesg output after the card is connected?

USB_AUDIO is compiled built-in on the kernel that why you can't insmod it.
Your sound card is supported since kernel 2.x so it should be working on current kernel.