Disabling the native Pi audio

ianhaynes

In response to a post about setting up the DAC card the poster was referred to the PI Troubleshooting documentation. I saw in there the note about disabling the native analog output, so thought I may as well do that. It instruct you to comment out the snd-bcm2835 line in the /etc/modules-load.d/raspberrypi.conf file.

My /etc/modules-load.d directory is empty and has no raspberrypi.conf.

Has this moved in newer builds?

Ian

Yatsushiro

I read the very same thing and have just edited my raspberrypi.conf file, which is where it should have been...

nick

I'm still learning RuneAudio as well, but in a post from Frank (hondagx35) he mentioned running the following:
pacman -Sy --force raspberrypi-firmware-bootloader linux-raspberrypi
and then following that with:
rm /etc/modules-load.d/raspberrypi.conf.

I'm not saying you should do that, but according to those steps /etc/modules-load.d/raspberrypi.conf appears to not be needed anymore.

hondagx35

Hi all,

My /etc/modules-load.d directory is empty and has no raspberrypi.conf.

raspberrypi.conf file, which is where it should have been...

I'm not saying you should do that, but according to those steps /etc/modules-load.d/raspberrypi.conf appears to not be needed anymore.

It depends on the version (RP1 or RP2/3) you are working on and if you did a kernel update or not.

I think it is a device tree parameter since kernel 4.0.6
from /boot/overlays/README:

The Overlay and Parameter Reference
===================================

Name:   <The base DTB>
Info:   Configures the base Raspberry Pi hardware
Load:   <loaded automatically>
Params:
        audio                    Set to "on" to disable the onboard ALSA audio
                                 interface (default "off")

        i2c_arm                  Set to "on" to enable the ARM's i2c interface
(default "off")
.....

Frank