How to unmute Dragonfly DAC

doxyq3

How can I unmute my Dragonfly dac in Runeaudio?

It works fine with Volumio.

Setup:

Raspberry pi B+ v1.2
8 gB Sandisks ultra w/ runeaudio (latest alpha and beta)
Audioquest Dragonfly
several USB drives

Thanks!!!

cmh714

ssh into the Pi and use alsamixer, select F6 to choose the DragonFly and then hit the M key to unmute.

GL

ACX

Hi doxyq3,
you could quickly check if your card is set to mute in this way:

access to your Rpi via SSH (user: root, pass: rune),
type alsamixer in the command line,
press F6 and select the Dragonfly DAC from the list,
check if the mixer volume bar has an "infinite" symbol or a "M" at his base.

In the second case, your card is muted: press "M" to mute/unmute the card.

doxyq3

Thanks!!!!!!!

Volume was unmuted but set to minimum, up arrows raised volume to max and sound works now

But..... the hardware volume control doesn't work and sound pauses a second every 2 seconds on 24bit/192k files

Software volume works but I would rather us the DACs hardware volume like in Volumio and 16bit/44k & 24bit/96k files play fine.

ACX

Please take a look at this thread and see if it can help you:
#291

doxyq3

When in software volume mode, volume will vary and all formats 16bit & 24bit - 44k-192k files play fine.

Hardware volume mode is the problem, with no volume control and 24bit 192k files stuttering.

Typing aplay -l shows:

card 0: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 0 bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA]
Subdevices: 8/8
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
card 0: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], device 1 bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 IEC958/HDMI]
subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Dragonfly [Audioquest Dragonfly], device 0: Usb Audio [Usb Audio]
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

I'm sorry but I'm totally ignorant with Linux. I don't understand a lot of the posts. Thank you for bearing with me.