Hello All,
I recently received a Raspberry Pi 5 from Canakit. See
https://www.canakit.com/canakit-raspberry-pi-5-starter-max-kit-turbine-white.htmlFor reasons best understood by others, the RP5 does not have an audio jack. All previous Raspberry Pi versions did.
Googling suggested that I could get audio by connecting a USB speaker to the RP5. That didn't work with a Logitech S150.
I read lots of suggestions on how to re-enable audio by editing system files. Unwilling to do that, I pressed on.
One source suggested just plugging in a speaker to the audio jack.
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=361183I wasn't sure how to do that since the Raspberry Pi 5 doesn't have an audio jack.
Reading further, I learned that the audio jack in question was the one on the monitor, not the RP5.
My Samsung Model U28E590D has an audio jack. I plugged a pair of Amazon Basic A110 speakers into the monitor's audio jack and got audio
Comment I find the decision to remove the audio jack from the Raspberry Pi 5 to be monumentally wrong headed. Apologists have suggested that the move was to save space. Following that logic, the developers could also have removed USB support, multiple HDMI outlets or camera support.
At the very least, the developers could have left enabled in software the drivers for audio. Ones and zeros don't take up much space.
Ralph Sutter
