Hi All. I have just built and am enjoying my PIcade…However I wanted to run retropie via Buster on a RPI 4…however when I do the Audio Device has no software volume control within Buster…when I access retropie…I cannot change the volume as it says the audio device is disabled or not found… The volu…

Hi @Largefry , Dredging up an old post here in the hope you found some solution in the meantime…? Others still suffering the same thing - eg. here and here . Cheers.

Hi sallonoroff Good to hear from you… when I wrote that I only saw a couple of people with those issues with no resolution. Basically I couldn’t get Retropie on RPI 4 to work correctly within Buster on a picade…but on a 3 b+ the problem goes away…at least for me. So thats what I’m using currently…

Thanks for replying - sadly i’ve run into the issue using a RPi3!

Oh no! Post some details of what version of buster you have What version of Retropie you have and I’ll compare with mine… Can you control volume of buster via the sound icon in the task bar?.. i.e. play you tube etc correctly with decent volume? Right click and check that you have an volume bar …

Thanks. I’m running RetroPie 4.7.1, installed with their image directly, so i don’t know details of the Raspbian exactly but I believe it’s Buster. I like your idea of trying YouTube etc but I can’t work out how - or if it’s even possible - to start the normal Raspbian desktop with this setup? Usin…

Hi Glad you got your volume sorted… That method didn’t work for me sadly on RPI4. It dosnt sound like you have raspbian installed… That’s why the startx didn’t work… When you get a moment…use another spare sdcard…Download raspbian and then from there… Install Retropie… There are loads of forums o…

[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 the audio card to PCM and the OMX PLAYER…

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