<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.</blockquote></div><br>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.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">As far as getting the system to use it, I normally just disable any on-motherboard audio chips and then use straight ALSA.<br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>James Sumners<br><a href="http://james.sumners.info/" target="_blank">http://james.sumners.info/</a> (technical profile)</div><div><a href="http://jrfom.com/" target="_blank">http://jrfom.com/</a> (personal site)</div><div><a href="http://haplo.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">http://haplo.bandcamp.com/</a> (band page)</div></div></div></div></div>
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