Hi, I’ve just got a new 8-inch Picade (the one with USB-C XHAT) and - aside from a faulty power switch, which i’m currently bypassing - all is well, except that I can’t change the volume! It’s very loud, which is rather distracting when you’re not the one playing on it! :) I’m using a Raspberry Pi…

I’m having the same problem on a fresh install of RetroPie 4.7.1 onto a Rpi3 with the 10" Picade. Audio worked as you describe (stuck at 100%, “failed to find mixer elements”) So I reinstalled the SD card and now I have no audio at all, and both of those odd system messages. I’m guessing RetroPi 4…

Hi @maehem , did you have any luck with trying an earlier version of RetroPie? I haven’t had opportunity to try that yet.

It turns out that you can’t get earlier versions of RetroPie. They don’t allow it. I did go into /boot/config.txt and re-enable the ALSA sound and try to use those. But even though I can adjust settings for it in the RetroPi menu now, there’s no audio output with any combination of settings I’ve …

Sorry to hear that, @maehem Just FYI, I’ve found this post pinned to the top of the RetroPie support forum: [image] Audio issues after latest Raspbian updates A recent change in Raspbian Buster's kernel/firmware updates for May 2020 is causing Audio/Sound issues for RPI users - users th…

There’s a workaround in this post [image] Picade X HAT sound volume too high Picade In fairness I should have really checked that out first! D’oh! Still, it only took 10 minutes or so, so no real loss and someone may have learned a bit about crontab in case they have thei…

Thanks @roundy . Probably is worth pointing everyone at the other thread on this .

true, but that thread isn’t in support and is marked as solved while this problem is far from solved :)

Cross posting from the other thread! [image] Picade X HAT sound volume too high Picade Hey folks, Tweaking the Retropie sound settings (accessible via whatever button you’ve got mapped to Start) got the software volume control working properly for me. Once I’d changed th…

This worked for me. It would however be really nice if a manual button control could be reimplemented.

New Picade - audio problem - volume stuck at 100%?

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roundy December 10, 2020, 10:01am 7

There’s a workaround in this post

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New Picade - audio problem - volume stuck at 100%?

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