From b29393cd36dcb2b885a30d43dd229b3d64f181ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bnewbold Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 21:28:06 -0800 Subject: quickstart-board: add audio note --- quickstart-board.rst | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/quickstart-board.rst b/quickstart-board.rst index 6b6db71..b84c728 100644 --- a/quickstart-board.rst +++ b/quickstart-board.rst @@ -144,3 +144,16 @@ would be a good time to do:: sudo apt-get install i2c-tools libi2c-dev +**Fixing Audio** + +The version of ``pulseaudio-novena`` that shipped with PVT2 boards (v1.0) has +some known problems that prevent audio from working correctly out of the box. +Later versions (v1.1) fix this, but as of January 10th 2015 have not been +pushed to the Kosagi apt repository as a package update. + +As a work around, one can either build a new .deb and install that, or as a +hack just copy the updated configuration files by hand to the correct paths. +After this the audio will need to be unmuted and turned up using ``alsamixer`` +as usual. ``mplayer`` works fine for playing audio files from the (headless) +command line. + -- cgit v1.2.3