2011/6/10 Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> > > > My guess is it goes to the "normal" one, as I barely hear anything with > > the volume at 100%. Any other way to know for sure? > > > Erm, by listening which sound card from which the sound comes out.... It > should be very obvious which sound card a given app is using. > > I've never heard anything apart : - some very bad sound I guess comes from the "normal" card, - or no sound at all. I don't know the sound of the HDMI card. > But, if you cannot tell then run: > > sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/pcm* > UTIL. PID ACC?S COMMANDE /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: marie-noelle 3119 F...m plugin-containe /dev/snd/pcmC1D3p: marie-noelle 2375 F...m pulseaudio Your distribution should > ensure this is all configured for you, so assuming they have done that > and assuming you've not messed with that config it *should* work, but > it's worth double checking and asking your distro support channel how > they expect it to work in their deployment of PA. >