Volumio 3 Buster Beta for X86

Please wait for Version 3.052, ready in 15 minutes, there was more missing

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Just for checking, I tried to play using HDMI 0. The names are looking good now.

I get the error below

Failed to open “alsa” (alsa); Error opening ALSA device “volumio”; snd_pcm_hw_params_set_buffer_time_near() failed: Invalid argument

But the startup sound comes fine.

Is there something i am missing in the setup.

Please update again, we should be on version 3.053 now. Will have a look at your issue after that

Install To Disk still not working on eMMC, I will investigate. May take a little longer…

Seeing the startup sound is there, could you do a fresh boot, attempt to play from HDMI 0 and then HDMI 1 and do a volumio log afterwards, thanks!

I managed to install to eMMC on Minix manually…followed your old guide

Here is the details.
http://logs.volumio.org/volumiobuster/85s7O8r.html

Did you get the startup sound on the headphones? (As they seem to be the default)

3.053 eventually let me flash to emmc. After a couple of reboots. Scanning Nas taking a lot longer but working. Still using USB audio. Will see what else works just now

There is still something not quite right with flashing to eMMC, luckily I now have a unit to test with.
Hope to improve it the next few days.

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I got the startup sound on HDMI (connected to AVR)

It worked for me, eventually. Was a bit of a slog. But now boots without issue. Now checking audio devices. Thanks so far.

yeah, had it working on one system, but on today’s it fails with creating the partitions.

Hi,

just flashed a fresh Volumiobuster-3.053-2021-03-06-x86_amd64.img on a stick.

After 1st boot, headphones (analog out) are the default. I left it unchanged.
:white_check_mark:local UI and WEB UI are working fine
:x: There’s no startup sound,
:x: There is no playback of TIDAL
:x: there is no playback of webradio

Here is the log after 1st boot: http://logs.volumio.org/volumiobuster/OsAIZO6.html

After a second boot:
:white_check_mark:there is the startup sound on the analog out (and on SPDIF)
:x: local UI shows the known error message:


:white_check_mark: there is playback on analog out (and on SPDIF)
:x: despite analog out is configured as output, SPDIF is also active.

Log after second boot: http://logs.volumio.org/volumiobuster/1hHI6TW.html

volumio@smx:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor N4200/N3350/E3900 Series Host Bridge (rev 0b)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 5a85 (rev 0b)
00:0e.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor N4200/N3350/E3900 Series Audio Cluster (rev 0b)
00:0f.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor N4200/N3350/E3900 Series Trusted Execution Engine (rev 0b)
00:12.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor N4200/N3350/E3900 Series SATA AHCI Controller (rev 0b)
00:13.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor N4200/N3350/E3900 Series PCI Express Port A #1 (rev fb)
00:13.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor N4200/N3350/E3900 Series PCI Express Port A #2 (rev fb)
00:13.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor N4200/N3350/E3900 Series PCI Express Port A #3 (rev fb)
00:13.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor N4200/N3350/E3900 Series PCI Express Port A #4 (rev fb)
00:15.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor N4200/N3350/E3900 Series USB xHCI (rev 0b)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor N4200/N3350/E3900 Series Low Pin Count Interface (rev 0b)
00:1f.1 SMBus: Intel Corporation Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor N4200/N3350/E3900 Series SMBus Controller (rev 0b)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 11)
03:00.0 SATA controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller (rev 02)
volumio@smx:~$
volumio@smx:~$
volumio@smx:~$
volumio@smx:~$ inxi -Fxxx
System:    Host: smx Kernel: 5.10.20 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A Console: tty 0 dm: N/A Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Machine:   Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: J3455-ITX serial: <root required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: P1.40
           date: 07/14/2017
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Celeron J3455 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Goldmont rev: 9 L2 cache: 1024 KiB
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 bogomips: 11980
           Speed: 2196 MHz min/max: 800/2300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2222 2: 2250 3: 2194 4: 2242
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel vendor: ASRock driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:5a85
           Display: tty server: X.org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa tty: 213x50
           Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor N4200/N3350/E3900 Series Audio Cluster vendor: ASRock
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:0e.0 chip ID: 8086:5a98
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.10.20
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASRock driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000
           bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8168
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 70:85:c2:6c:29:14
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 961.20 GiB used: 2.57 GiB (0.3%)
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 1TB size: 931.51 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: S3Z9NB0K528894Z
           rev: 1B6Q scheme: GPT
           ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Intenso model: Rainbow Line size: 29.69 GiB serial: 12062000136500 scheme: GPT
Partition: ID-1: / size: 25.93 GiB used: 34.9 MiB (0.1%) fs: overlay source: ERR-102
           ID-2: /boot size: 170.8 MiB used: 57.4 MiB (33.6%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sdb1
Sensors:   Missing: Required tool sensors not installed. Check --recommends
Info:      Processes: 169 Uptime: 13m Memory: 3.70 GiB used: 494.1 MiB (13.0%) Init: systemd v: 241 runlevel: 5 default: 2
           Compilers: gcc: N/A Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 running in: tty 0 (SSH) inxi: 3.0.32
volumio@smx:~$

Cheers, Robert

Hi,

just manually flashed the Volumiobuster-3.053-2021-03-06-x86_amd64.img on the internal SSD.

http://logs.volumio.org/volumiobuster/PBsJJLH.html

And - surprise, surprise, after the first boot everything works fine!!! :astonished: strange.

I did not hear the startup sound but playback works.
The parallelly active SPDIF to the configures analog out is also seen here.

AH! I found something interesting: As long as you leave the output settings unchanged at first boot (set to analog out) everything is fine. If you change the output device to something else (in my case: SPDIF or HDMI) there is no tostmessage"successfully restarted player" and after that you cannot start any playback. That error remains also after reboot!

Next finding: As long as the local UI hangs in this error (“The profile appears to be busy…”, see screenshot above) you are not able to playback anything. When you check “unlock profile and relaunch” on the local ui everything works!

One more finding: If you disable local UI via HDMI no playback is working. After waiting 2 or 3 minutes, playback starts.

Cheers,Robert

yeah, something seems slightly off. just connected monitor to device to see boot up messages. this comes up twice during boot:

lsblk: /dev/sd[a-z]: not a block device
sh: usb: unknown operand
lsblk: /dev/sd[a-z]: not a block device
sh: usb: unknown operand

and then after 3 to 4 seconds same message comes up again. and then it starts up properly. but the whole boot up process takes around 95 seconds.

here is log after boot up

http://logs.volumio.org/volumiobuster/0cgXS3W.html

on output devices i can only use USB Audio CODEC. others don’t work. available choices are:
headphone jack
usb audio codec
hdmi 0
hdmi 1
hdmi 2

system feels sluggish and sometimes needs 5 to 10 seconds to respond especially when switching between audio sources.

regards

The error message is something I still need to fix, it only occurs when booting from eMMC (or NVMe) but is harmless.
I can’t confirm (yet) that the system is sluggish, but when you say especially after switching output then it looks like we have an (alsa?) reconfiguration issue. I have a suspicion that this is causing us other problems as well

I’m not sure if we can change/correct this SPDIF behavior, as we do not have full control over output routing. Volumio selects a device for output but I do not believe it specifically mutes others.

That’s definitely the case. Every time I switch the output there is no green toastmessage. It takes about 2 minutes until I can start a playback again after switching output. It seems to be a similar (the same?) behaviour like we saw after the first boot of a freshly flashed stick.

Building up the local music library takes many hours now and I still see no progress…