<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span><br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"></font>).<br><br>The second thing is HDMI. I have a HDMI output on the graphics card I <br>bought (an EVGA Nvidia 210 [0]) and the respective input on my TV. My <br>question is whether a direct HDMI connection between the graphics card <br>and the TV will give me audio over HDMI, or do I need a special cable? <br>If this will work with just a standard cable, is there any configuration <br>magic required to direct the audio to the graphics card?<br><br><br>My experience is that the audio over
HDMI requires a little magic in the ALSA setting and I think more specifically in the asoundrc file.<br>I know I had to make some setting originally (about 2 years ago) but often these things get incorporated into the default so you may be lucky. <br>If you want to do things like simultaneous output of sound to HDMI (to TV) and to spdif (to amp) then you almost certainly will have to add an asoundrc file. <br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>