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Cirrus Logic Audio Card working on the Raspberry Pi 2

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Former Member over 10 years ago

Hi all!

 

As you might know, Cirrus Logic's main kernel source branch recently switched to 3.18.

My first thought was "Hmm, that means the Cirrus Logic card could finally work on the RPi2..."

I have built a couple of 3.18 kernels for my B+ and RPi2 and I have managed to get both models to produce sound image

 

It's still early days, i.e. there are possibly bugs and glitches to fix, but for those of you who would like to try it out I've made an image file that you can download here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzIaxMH3N5O1cmJ1bFhMcG1hc0E/view?usp=sharing

The file is a 1.3 GB zip. Uncompressed size is 3.1 GB, so it fits comfortably on a 4 GB card.


The image is based on the standard 2015-02-16-raspbian-wheezy image from the Foundation that you flash to a SD card for a fresh install.

I have only added my kernels and set up the configuration files to get the card going.

It should work on the older B model  with a Wolfson Audio Card too, but I haven't tested that yet.

 

Have fun!

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Ragnar

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    Former Member over 10 years ago

    Ragnar:

    i try to install your archive "kernel_3_18_9_W_CL.tgz" on a fresh 2015-02-16-raspbian-wheezy and no sound from the CL card. The card doesn't seem to be recognized by alsa...

     

    pi@pi ~ $ amixer
    Simple mixer control 'Master',0
      Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined penum
      Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
      Limits: Playback 0 - 65536
      Mono:
      Front Left: Playback 45220 [69%] [on]
      Front Right: Playback 45220 [69%] [on]
    Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
      Capabilities: cvolume cswitch cswitch-joined penum
      Capture channels: Front Left - Front Right
      Limits: Capture 0 - 65536
      Front Left: Capture 65536 [100%] [on]
      Front Right: Capture 65536 [100%] [on]
    pi@pi ~ $
    do i have forgotten something?
    (From your image, it works like a charm image Thanks!!!)
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    Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

    It looks like you have another sound card installed, possibly it has taken the position as the default card.

    what does "aplay -l", "aplay -L" and "cat /proc/asound/cards" say?

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    Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to Former Member

    pi@raspberrypi ~ $ aplay -l
    **** Liste des Périphériques Matériels PLAYBACK ****
    carte 0: sndrpiwsp [snd_rpi_wsp], périphérique 0: WM5102 AiFi wm5102-aif1-0 []
      Sous-périphériques: 1/1
      Sous-périphérique #0: subdevice #0
    carte 1: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], périphérique 0: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA]
      Sous-périphériques: 8/8
      Sous-périphérique #0: subdevice #0
      Sous-périphérique #1: subdevice #1
      Sous-périphérique #2: subdevice #2
      Sous-périphérique #3: subdevice #3
      Sous-périphérique #4: subdevice #4
      Sous-périphérique #5: subdevice #5
      Sous-périphérique #6: subdevice #6
      Sous-périphérique #7: subdevice #7
    carte 1: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], périphérique 1: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 IEC958/HDMI]
      Sous-périphériques: 1/1
      Sous-périphérique #0: subdevice #0
    pi@raspberrypi ~ $ aplay -L
    null
        Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
    default:CARD=sndrpiwsp
        snd_rpi_wsp, 
        Default Audio Device
    sysdefault:CARD=sndrpiwsp
        snd_rpi_wsp, 
        Default Audio Device
    default:CARD=ALSA
        bcm2835 ALSA, bcm2835 ALSA
        Default Audio Device
    sysdefault:CARD=ALSA
        bcm2835 ALSA, bcm2835 ALSA
        Default Audio Device
    pi@raspberrypi ~ $ cat /proc/asound/cards
     0 [sndrpiwsp      ]: snd_rpi_wsp - snd_rpi_wsp
                          snd_rpi_wsp
     1 [ALSA           ]: bcm2835 - bcm2835 ALSA
                          bcm2835 ALSA
    pi@raspberrypi ~ $

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    pi@raspberrypi ~ $ aplay -l
    **** Liste des Périphériques Matériels PLAYBACK ****
    carte 0: sndrpiwsp [snd_rpi_wsp], périphérique 0: WM5102 AiFi wm5102-aif1-0 []
      Sous-périphériques: 1/1
      Sous-périphérique #0: subdevice #0
    carte 1: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], périphérique 0: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA]
      Sous-périphériques: 8/8
      Sous-périphérique #0: subdevice #0
      Sous-périphérique #1: subdevice #1
      Sous-périphérique #2: subdevice #2
      Sous-périphérique #3: subdevice #3
      Sous-périphérique #4: subdevice #4
      Sous-périphérique #5: subdevice #5
      Sous-périphérique #6: subdevice #6
      Sous-périphérique #7: subdevice #7
    carte 1: ALSA [bcm2835 ALSA], périphérique 1: bcm2835 ALSA [bcm2835 IEC958/HDMI]
      Sous-périphériques: 1/1
      Sous-périphérique #0: subdevice #0
    pi@raspberrypi ~ $ aplay -L
    null
        Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
    default:CARD=sndrpiwsp
        snd_rpi_wsp, 
        Default Audio Device
    sysdefault:CARD=sndrpiwsp
        snd_rpi_wsp, 
        Default Audio Device
    default:CARD=ALSA
        bcm2835 ALSA, bcm2835 ALSA
        Default Audio Device
    sysdefault:CARD=ALSA
        bcm2835 ALSA, bcm2835 ALSA
        Default Audio Device
    pi@raspberrypi ~ $ cat /proc/asound/cards
     0 [sndrpiwsp      ]: snd_rpi_wsp - snd_rpi_wsp
                          snd_rpi_wsp
     1 [ALSA           ]: bcm2835 - bcm2835 ALSA
                          bcm2835 ALSA
    pi@raspberrypi ~ $

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