Cirrus Logic Audio Card working on the Raspberry Pi 2

Hi Ragnar

yes, both items verified, the config.txt is exactly as your example, all other lines only comments (and by the way if I put the # kernel.... the original kernel is working again)

  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Mar 27 17:59 /boot/overlays/rpi-cirrus-wm5102-overlay.dtb is my answer on ls -l /boot/overlays/rpi-cirrus-wm5102-overlay.dtb

Have you seen my added hint on a failure message after using the tar command?

Txs for your help!!!

Frank

No, I didn't see that. It definitely hints at a corrupt download, though. There shouldn't be any complaints from tar.

$ md5sum kernel_3_18_9_W_CL.tgz 
ce65d837280659e90ea99b5b6aba8566 kernel_3_18_9_W_CL.tgz

EDIT: I missed this at first:

  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Mar 27 17:59 /boot/overlays/rpi-cirrus-wm5102-overlay.dtb is my answer on ...

That doesn't look right, the overlay file is zero bytes, it should be 3334 bytes.

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Ragnar

Hello Ragnar,

finally solved as you gave me the hint and you were right --> the overlay file was empty.

And I found out why and want to post it here as this might happen to other folks as well:

• The md5 checksum was OK on the windows machine as well as on the RPi
• The error message while extracting the tgz file was:     tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

Reason for that:

• While downloading the kernel...._CL.tgz file on a windows machine and copying the file to the SD card to the /boot directory (as this is the only visible directory under windows)
• The /boot directory was 100% used and consequently no file could be really writen into this dir --> above error message generated

root@raspberrypi:/# df -h

Filesystem      Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

rootfs          15G 2.6G  12G  19% /

/dev/root        15G 2.6G  12G  19% /

devtmpfs        214M 0  214M  0% /dev

tmpfs            44M 232K  44M  1% /run

tmpfs          5.0M    0 5.0M  0% /run/lock

tmpfs            88M    0 88M  0% /run/shm

/dev/mmcblk0p1 56M  56M    0 100% /boot

After removing the kernel..._CL.tgz file to another location everything operated perfectly. I got the CL card to work, yipiyeah

Txs for your hints!!

Frank

Thanks,

I used the Listen_to_SPDIF_on_LineOut.sh skript and it works perfect with 44.100 Khz.

However when the source uses 48.000 Khz, the music comes with a lot of noise and distortion.

Unfortunately I can't disable 48khz on my PS3  :-(

Some One wrote:

I used the Listen_to_SPDIF_on_LineOut.sh skript and it works perfect with 44.100 Khz.

However when the source uses 48.000 Khz, the music comes with a lot of noise and distortion.

Not sure if it's related to your issue, but I noticed that the mixer names changed from "SPDIF in" / "SPDIF out" to "SPDIF In" / "SPDIF Out" in the kernel 3.18 driver. I've attached updated listen scripts, give them a try, maybe that fixes your issue.

so long,

Hias

That didn't change it, but  thanks for trying.

See here on how to change the S/PDIF rate:

http://www.element14.com/community/message/107506/l/re-re-re-re-is-it-possible-to-send-audio-from-spdif-in-to-the-lineou…

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Ragnar

Hi Ragnar,

I'm a bit confused I'm afraid! I saw your .deb files and tried to install the drivers with these .deb file. The package was installed, but thats obviously not enough to get the card working. So could you tell us the steps to follow to get the card working? Do i also need the .tar files? Please forgive me if this is a stupid question. The method with the .tar files only worked for me perfectly.

Thanks for your great work!

Thomas

Hi Thomas!

No, you don't need the .tar file, but you have to make the same kind of changes to the configuration files.

After you have installed  the .deb package, add these lines

dtparam=spi=on
dtparam=i2c_arm=on
dtoverlay=rpi-cirrus-wm5102-overlay

to the file /boot/config.txt

On a RPi2B, also add

kernel=vmlinuz-3.18.9-v7cludlmmapfll

or, on all others, add

kernel=vmlinuz-3.18.9cludlmmapfll

to /boot/config.txt

Put these lines into /etc/modprobe.d/raspi-blacklist.conf  (create the file if it doesn't exist.)

softdep arizona-spi pre: arizona-ldo1
softdep spi-bcm2708 pre: fixed

EDIT to add: You  also need the overlay file rpi-cirrus-wm5102-overlay.dtb if you don't already have it in /boot/overlays. You can extract the tar file in some temporary location and then copy the overlay file from it to /boot/overlays.

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Ragnar

Hi Ragnar,

that was the missing part! It's running now!

Thanks for the good work and your kind support!

Thomas