<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class="">My Mac Mini's Preferences > Sound window lets me “select a device for sound output.” This works well driving my sound system. It detects other devices but lets me select my converter:</div><div class=""> USB > Digital-to-Analog converter > mixer board.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Everything I find online seems to indicate that nobody’s created a similar configuration tool for Linux, that we have to use some queries and build a config file. The query I tried did show that there are two devices, but I really don’t know what I’m doing.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Any instruction would be greatly appreciated.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My situation:</div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>In my Mint system, I want to drive a monitor via HDMI,</blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class="">and sound via USB > Digital-to-Analog converter > mixer board.</blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class="">The very same connection worked when driven by the Mac Mini.</blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class="">Linux never had a problem with it either, but I messed up something.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">At one point the sound was playing through the monitor’s relatively weak loudspeaker.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">After some tinkering, nothing is coming through.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></blockquote><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Victor</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>