<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">The reason for wanting sound on the HDMI cable is because it simplifies<br>
cabling and because most LCDs are expecting the sound to be sent with<br>
the video. Telling the TV to take sound from another input doesn't sound<br>
like its possible in a lot of cases and appears to be the case in my<br>
situation. The Analogue sound input seems only to work when using the<br>
VGA interface.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have an older Panasonic 42" and nothing else. I tried for ages to do HDMI audio. Between the loud pops and crackles when starting video, lack of AC3 support on the TV and the occasional complete loss of audio I gave up and went back to analog.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Because I like to use the volume control on the Myth remote (and not on the TV remote), I had to turn on the software mixer, which in my case was fairly craptastic when dealing with digital audio.</div>
<div> </div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Then in Ubuntu the taskbars are<br>
missing again until I rung nvidia-settings and then the mode switches to<br>
HDMI on the TV and it resizes the screen correctly. This happens<br>
immediately on launching nvidia-settings without changing anything or<br>
saving a new config.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yep, this happened to me too. You need to run a startup script which quietly loads up the nvidia settings when Gnome starts. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>First, just make sure you have a <b>~/.nvidia-settings-rc</b> file, with your overscan settings already in them. This *should* already be present because they load OK when you run nvidia-settings manually. Check for a line like this (yours will probably say 100 I guess):</div>
<div><br></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">0/OverscanCompensation[DFP-0]=65</font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div>Then, create a Gnome startup file called <b>~/.config/autostart/nvidia-settings.desktop</b>, then restart GDM or logout/login or reboot:</div>
<div><br></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">[Desktop Entry]</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Type=Application</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Exec=nvidia-settings -l</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Hidden=false</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Name[en_NZ]=Nvidia Settings Apply</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">Name=Nvidia Settings Apply</font></div>
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<div><br></div><div>I'd be interested to hear how you get on.</div><div><br></div><div>Jonathan</div><div><br></div></div>