Screen fades to black 10"

Picade
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Hello!

Just built my picade yesterday and having troubles getting it to work very well at all. At first, i couldn’t change the volume in settings, whenever I changed it and got out of that menu it just reset to 0.
Playing ROMs worked tho, only problem is the volume is BLASTING at 100%.

I found a solution that is to remove the line: “dtparam=audio=off” from /boot/config.txt.
Very well, I can now change the volume and it saves as it should, but now when i try to start a ROM (or when going into some option menus from the retropie configuration interface) the screen just fades to black. Nothing happens until i press the power button which turns off the machine as usual (screen gets filled with the usual “turn off texts”).

I don’t really know what to do, I’ve tried reinstalling a couple times but am running into the same issue again and again.

edit:
I should clarify, I’m using a Raspberry pi 4, with the official power plug.

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I’ve been experimenting with changing some of the different settings in config.txt, but no luck. I’ve at least figured out I can put the “dtparam=audio=off” back which makes the machine work, just that the volume gets turned up to 100.

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Have you tried the suggested settings in the ‘adjusting the volume’ section at the end of the tutorial?

Those got my volume behaving properly, I didn’t have to do anything with config.txt.

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Oh.
Oh wow.
How embarrasing, I must have missed that part! Thank you, now everything works perfectly!

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