<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt">>> Okay. In pavucontrol, the Configuration tab lists both the HDMI<br clear="none"><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="y_msg_container">>> and the Internal Audio. But as far as I can tell, it merely lists them.<br clear="none">>> I don't need to click on anything in that tab, right?<br clear="none">><br clear="none">>You do.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">>You need to select the correct profile. On my office computer, it lists <br clear="none">>the "Off" profile, 4 HDMI Stereo profiles and
4 HDMI 5.1 profiles.<div class="yqt7451123167" id="yqtfd61546"><br>I see. Okay for the Analog card, there are many choices. For the HDMI<br>card, there are only two choices: HDMI and off. Pavucontrol->Configuration<br>doesn't list that many choices for the HDMI card.<br><br clear="none">>> >speaker-test -l2 -c2 -D hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> This worked and produced the hissing sound through the TV<br clear="none">>> speakers. I used DEV=1.</div>><br clear="none">>So, you need to select the second of the identically-named "Digital <br clear="none">>Stereo (HDMI) Output" profiles. The default is the first one which sends <br clear="none">>sound to DEV=0, i.e. through another internal HDMI or DVI connector, <br clear="none">>i.e. into nowhere.<br clear="none"><br>Select from which tab? Pavucontrol->Configuration? I don't have<br>many
choices from that tab.<br><br>Also, I am running pavucontrol as root, which you told me not to do. When I run <br>pavucontrol as non-root, it immediately core dumps.<br><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>