I've been using the Pi Imager to baseline my home arcade cabinet with Raspberry Pi OS Full 64-bit without issue for several years.
It's been a few months since I created a new SD card so I was excited to see the Debian Kernel has moved from Bookworm to Trixie.
Unfortunately, I can't get my RetroArch frontend to work with audio drivers on this one.
TL;DR - boot to a console command prompt and run "speaker-test", here's what I see:
speaker-test 1.2.4
Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
Playback open error: -524,Unknown error 524
This is the same error I see in RetroArch when the LibRetro core for MAME (lr-mame) initializes.
Note that audio works fine for the standalone version of MAME so I originally thought this might be a LibRetro problem. But seeing as though the same error is generated from the console speaker-test, perhaps something broke or changed in the PulseAudio driver when accessed directly via the raw driver API (just a guess).
Anyone else seeing this problem or have any fix/workaround?
It's been a few months since I created a new SD card so I was excited to see the Debian Kernel has moved from Bookworm to Trixie.
Unfortunately, I can't get my RetroArch frontend to work with audio drivers on this one.
TL;DR - boot to a console command prompt and run "speaker-test", here's what I see:
speaker-test 1.2.4
Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
Playback open error: -524,Unknown error 524
This is the same error I see in RetroArch when the LibRetro core for MAME (lr-mame) initializes.
Note that audio works fine for the standalone version of MAME so I originally thought this might be a LibRetro problem. But seeing as though the same error is generated from the console speaker-test, perhaps something broke or changed in the PulseAudio driver when accessed directly via the raw driver API (just a guess).
Anyone else seeing this problem or have any fix/workaround?
Statistics: Posted by dcaputi — Sun Dec 14, 2025 2:36 pm