MIC+ not working for Raspberry pi 5 on ubuntu

Hi

I had the MIC+ installed on the pi 4. Recently bought a pi 5 and trying the same installation procedure (on Ubuntu Server 23.10) but getting an error for aplay-l: “the soundcard is not detected”
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I have copied the overlay directory to the /boot/firmware/ directory. The versions are slightly different than the installation guide, so maybe that is an issue. For example ubuntu shows 2 different directories containing googlehat-soundcard drivers and I’m not sure if it matters which one is chosen.
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If this should work then maybe someone can help me understand the possible sources of error?

Thanks.

Hi, have your tired this?

“I got sound working by editing /boot/firmware/config.txt. I commented out the line dtparam=audio=on and I added at the end the line dtoverlay=hifiberry-dacplus. I rebooted. aplay -l now has card 0: sndrpihifiberry. The sound is quieter than it should be, but at least I hear something.”

Mic+ is a pure I2S device so all recipes from competition should work on it, let me know how it goes.

I just tried using the hifiberr-dacplus overlay and it also doesn’t work. It seems to be related to a change in pi 5 hardware. I found the following two related issues:

This seems to sovle the issue for pi os. I tried the method they suggested “dtoverlay=hifiberry-dacplus,slave” but that doesn’t work for me (on ubuntu).

Another person is using ubuntu 23.10 on Pi 5 with a different DAC and they also can’t get it to work:

So for now it seems this may not be possible on a Pi5 with Ubuntu 23.10, until a higher power intervenes.

Hi, we confirm that I2S not working on UBUNTU + Pi5, affecting all brands of I2S sound card, we are looking for a workaround.

@Raspiaudio Have you guys found a workaround for Ubuntu + Pi5? I’m in the same situation where I can’t get any I2S DAC to work.

Have you tried in the config.txt :

dtoverlay=hifiberry-dacplus,slave

?

Thanks, I tried that just now but I didn’t see any audio devices pop up with aplay -l. At the time I didn’t have my dac attached but on PiOS that didn’t stop audio devices like max98357a etc from showing up.