<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>I made some more progress. I ran start-pulseaudio-x11 as a regular user, then<br>when I ran pavucontrol as root, it displayed the pavucontrol tabs correctly. But</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>I still can not play audio on the TV through the HDMI cable.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;
background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>In the Configuration tab, it's obvious which card is the HDMI output. But<br>there is nothing to select in that tab. I then went to the Output tab and<br>pressed the green "set as fallback" button. However, when I play a video file<br>with mplayer, no sound occurs. However, there is a 'sound level' bar, or<br>something like that on the Output tab. When I play a video file with mplayer,<br>that sound level bar moves as if audio was actually playing. Only everything<br>is silent.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;">The same things happens if I play a .wav file with pacat. I hear sound on the PC</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">speakers if I select the non-HDMI device in the Output tab. But no sound anywhere</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">if I select the HDMI device in the Output tabs.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande,
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