[ale] Fwd: HDMI out from lubuntu box to jvc television

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Tue Oct 20 11:25:28 EDT 2015


On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Double check your hardware specs. The HDMI output on some macbook pro
> machines did not have sound connected internally to the socket. I would
> expect a graphics card with HDMI output would require an audio in line at
> the least or also have sound chips.


Not always. In fact, that would only be for older cards. Most of them now
have an audio codec chip on-board and show up as independent sound devices.

As far as getting the system to use it, I normally just disable any
on-motherboard audio chips and then use straight ALSA.


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