<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt">>I am not sure what you mean. When people say "nothing to select", <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">>sometimes they mean "empty menu with no text at all", and sometimes <br clear="none">>"only one item, already selected, nothing else to try".<br><br>Okay. In pavucontrol, the Configuration tab lists both the HDMI<br>and the Internal Audio. But as far as I can tell, it merely lists them.<br>I don't need to click on anything in that tab, right?<br><br>>It would help if you post the output of the following command:<br clear="none">><br clear="none">>pacmd ls<div class="yqt5866873500" id="yqtfd01719"><br>Are you sure? That comand lists 23 modules and the output is more<br>than 700 lines.<br><br clear="none"></div>>1. cat /proc/asound/cards<br clear="none"><br>I did this. My output was very similar to your output.<br><br>> 2. aplay -L<br clear="none"><br>I did this and the output was very similar to yours.<br><br>> speaker-test -l2 -c2 -D front:CARD=MID,DEV=0<br clear="none"><br>It produced the hissing sound through the analog speakers.<br><br clear="none">>speaker-test -l2 -c2 -D hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0<br clear="none"><br>This worked and produced the hissing sound through the TV<br>speakers. I used DEV=1.<br><br>Thanks very much for you help. I hope we are getting close to the<br>solution for this.<br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>