NVIDIA: no sound to TV via HDMI

[Bill Davidsen]

Marcel Rieux wrote:
> Since the NVIDIA forums are just a lost of time, I'll first ask the
> question here.
> 
> I have an NVIDIA 9400GT card and a Sony LCD TV linked with an HDMI cable.
> 
> First problem I found: the S/PDIF cable -- which is needed only with
> NVIDIA cards -- wasn't installed. The plug had a molding problem and
> one of the 4 holes was blocked. (The hole was just empty: no wire
> going to it.) I opened it with a pin, installed it with the arrow
> facing the closest part of the motherboard, reversed it, and, of
> course, sound doesn't come out of the TV. It's an Nvidia product!
> 
> Anybody got this working?

Did you get PulseAudio to send output to the connector? Many times this is a PA 
config issue.

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