Sound on S905X4

[andre2b]

Hello! First of all I'd like to congratulate and tell how grateful I am for your work.

I have a Tanix T4 and I'm using it as a print server , ad removal DNS server and proxy server and it works great.

But I'd like to try some emulators as well. I saw on exceptions where it says "All S905X4 boxes: No sound."

But I came across this thread of Armbian on Google https://forum.armbian.com/topic/32441-no-audio-on-s905x-tv-box-because-device-tree-doesnt-include-it/ where this guy said he got sound working on S905X.

I tried using his DTB , by putting it on the DTB directory and changing the .config file to point to it, but when I do that it won't boot.

I don't know if it would be possible to make sound work , if it would it would be great.

Anyway, thanks again and keep up your great work, I'm sure a lot of people around the world are using your version of Linux on old TV boxes like I am.

Cheers from Brazil!

[devmfc]

Your welcome, thanks.

S905X != S905X4 ?
Yes sound works on S905/S905x/S905x2/s905x3/S912/S922X but not on S905X4 or S905W2
DTB's are different for each kernel "variant" (vendor/mainline/versions even) and different for each SoC, so not interchangeable like you did.

For multimedia usage use CoreElec, they use vendor kernels and do support all video/audio stuff. My images won't.

[andre2b]

Thank you for your reply and explanation.

I read somewhere the difference betwwen X3, X4, X5 was only the videos codecs so I thought the DTBs were "interchangeable" and it appears they are not.

I wish you all the best and again keep up the good work!