poing, Now I've had a chance to do a bit googling, the situation with the Cubietruck using Archlinux ARM and SOA seems to be this:
(1) Triodes' Cubietruck installer is now out of date. It was built to use the old sunxi kernel, patched for 24bit spdif, and a boot mechanism (u-boot) that required both a uEnv.txt file, which held boot arguments, and FEX-files which held hardware descriptions and can be thought of as equivalent to a PC BIOS, all written to the SD card. (2) Arch Linux has moved to using the mainline kernel (currently version 4.0.4) and a newer boot mechanism which works with a boot.cmd file turned into a binary boot.scr file and something called DTB the Device Tree Blob. It's the DTB which holds the hardware description. If you first install Archlinux ARM as per these instructions, http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/allwinner/cubietruck , you end up with (2). If you look inside ArchLinuxARM-armv7-latest.tar.gz you'll find the DTB file for the Cubietruck sun7i-a20-cubietruck.dtb under /boot/dtbs. These are binary files that can be converted to a text file, it's 1,442 lines long. Searching in that file does not show any reference to audio hardware that I can see. This would confirm a comment at the Arch Arm Linux forum made on 1st June: - On Linux mainline support of video output and everything related to multimedia like sound is still pretty poor - For the moment at least, latest Arch on a Cubietruck doesn't look to be a good choice for an audio application. As an alternative, these refs. may be of interest to you: https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Allwinner#Installing_from_an_SD_card_image or http://www.igorpecovnik.com/2013/12/24/cubietruck-debian-wheezy-sd-card-image/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Krisbee's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101624
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