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   And if someone felt they didn't have the hardware for this, the NVidia card   
   audio-over-HDMI is a separate audio device from the HDAudio sound chip,   
   so if you needed test materials for a Jack experiment, you could send a   
   sound channel to the speakers in your monitor. Not everyone uses the speakers   
   in their monitor, and they may not know they exist.   
      
   I even have a stereo output jack on my HDMI to VGA adapter, but that   
   only counts as a monitor-style audio output. The "destination" in that   
   case is still NVidia, as nobody knows the chip there is a "sink" for sound.   
   There is no back channel from the chip saying it is doing that.   
      
   So you don't need to have a Xonar, to do these experiments. Look carefully   
   at your collection of goods, for odds and ends like that.   
      
   And Bluetooth audio does not count in this case, as we want something   
   akin to conventional streaming, to see if a Jack scheme might work.   
   Bluetooth might involve more aggravation to get running as a sink.   
      
   It took a long time, for Linux to get the "stereo, 5.1, 7.1" and so on choices,   
   of a default system mixer model. Back before Pulseaudio and Pipewire,   
   people were doing custom things with ALSA config files, but this is   
   not for the faint of heart. In my experiments, I was busting things   
   more often than I was fixing them :-)   
      
      Paul   
      
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