# Raspbian update broke my Displayotron Internet radio **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [June 17, 2020, 7:49pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/raspbian-update-broke-my-displayotron-internet-radio/14285 "2020-06-17T19:49:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rayleask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@rayleask](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/rayleask)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 7:49pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/raspbian-update-broke-my-displayotron-internet-radio/14285/1 "2020-06-17T19:49:56Z")
Hi. I have an early Raspberry Pi Model B that along with a Displayotron 3000 has been my Internet Radio for a long time. It ran Raspbian and the other day I did a “sudo apt-get update”. I do this quite regularly but this time I got the following bunch of error messages amixer: Unable to find simple control ‘PCM’,0 amixer: Cannot find the given element from control default Traceback (most recent call last): File “./radio.py”, line 55, in 10 # Idle after 10 seconds File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dot3k/menu.py”, line 114, in **init** self.\_setup\_menu(self.menu\_options) File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dot3k/menu.py”, line 166, in \_setup\_menu value.setup(self.config) File “…/…/plugins/volume.py”, line 42, in setup self.output\_mode = self.get\_mode() File “…/…/plugins/volume.py”, line 74, in get\_mode mode = subprocess.check\_output(“amixer cget numid=3 | grep ‘: values=’”, shell=True) File “/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py”, line 223, in check\_output raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd, output=output) And now my Internet Radio doesn’t work. I am not a Python Guru, in fact I am not a guru of any sort. Can anyone give me any pointers where the trouble might be? I rebuilt the whole caboodle with the latest Raspbian but got exactly the same messages. I have now created a really simple Radio but I cant let the Displayotron go to waste. Thanks Ray ---
**Author:** ![Caperjack1953](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/caperjack1953/32/7923_2.png) [@Caperjack1953](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/Caperjack1953)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 11:35pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/raspbian-update-broke-my-displayotron-internet-radio/14285/2 "2020-06-17T23:35:43Z")
me no guru either , get an older version of raspbian here to use with the display-o-tron-3000 .good luck [http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/](http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/) ---
**Author:** ![rayleask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@rayleask](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/rayleask)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 10:30am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/raspbian-update-broke-my-displayotron-internet-radio/14285/3 "2020-06-18T10:30:26Z")
Thanks for your reply. I will give it a go. Ray ---
**Author:** ![Caperjack1953](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/caperjack1953/32/7923_2.png) [@Caperjack1953](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/Caperjack1953)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/raspbian-update-broke-my-displayotron-internet-radio/14285/4 "2020-06-18T18:13:38Z")
your welcome good luck,if all your using it for is display o tron ,you dont need to do updates .I don’t anyway ---
**Author:** ![calleblyh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@calleblyh](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/calleblyh)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2020, 2:35pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/raspbian-update-broke-my-displayotron-internet-radio/14285/5 "2020-06-21T14:35:10Z")
Iam looking for instructions how to build Displayotron internet radio. A few years ago I built the Pimoroni’s Pirate Internet Radio which has been working quite well over the years. I would be keen to build Displayotron internet radio just to see how it differs and what would be the benefits of the Displayotron. Just out curiosity Calle Blyh