<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="">Michael, thanks for boosting my trust in Mint.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yes, <b class="">pavucontrol</b> is available via the regular sources and works perfectly, just as smooth as on the Mac. I only wondered why they don’t install it by default, but I guess for some it would just be clutter.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I got my sound running — I’m not sure what I did, but I think both my output devices had disable buttons which I guess must have been in effect; I hit a few buttons so I’m not sure what did it. Again, I don’t know what I had done that shut it down in the first place.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I thought I would concoct a panel launcher for <b class="">pavucontrol</b>, so I did this:</div><div class=""> Add to Panel > Launch</div><div class="">… and this led me to a menu of apps I hadn’t seen before; and one of them was pavucontrol.</div><div class="">Can’t beat that!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks again.</div><div class="">________________________</div><br class=""><div><div class="">On 20190208, at 09:59, Michael Butash <<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net" class="">michael@butash.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Mint's audio panel might not let you do it, but install pavucontrol, which is pulseaudio volume control, which can (I always install and use this only). <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">When you play the video with whatever generating audio, pavucontrol should show in "playback" menu, with the destination audio as hdmi output card. Change that to be your other audio destination, the usb dac, and that should be all you need to divert audio there. If you don't see another device, ensure all are enabled in Configuration and you see them both under Output Devices.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Check and make sure all the playback applications are seeing audio levels, and then make sure the appropriate output device is as well under output does too as they can work independently.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-mb</div></div></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 10:49 PM Victor Odhner <<a href="mailto:vodhner@cox.net" class="">vodhner@cox.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" 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:0px 0px 0px 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:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px" class="">and sound via USB > Digital-to-Analog converter > mixer board.</blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px" class="">The very same connection worked when driven by the Mac Mini.</blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 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></div>---------------------------------------------------<br class="">
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