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Problems with sound on HDMI connection - stelly - 2012-05-05 Hi, I've just bought an Acer Revo R3700 and installed xbmc 11.10. I have successfully connected to my home network and I am playing music from another PC in the house. So far so good. The problem I'm having is that I can't hear the music through the TV, which is connected to the XBMC box by HDMI cable. NOTE: I've checked the cable, which is OK (i.e. it works when I use it to connect the Sky box to the TV). When I try and play a track on I get a message saying "Failed ti initialize Audio device. Check your audio settings") .... these are: Audio Output - HDMI Speaker Configuration - 2.0 Boost volume level on downmix - enabled - Dolby Digital (AC3) capable receiver - enabled - DTS capable received - enabled Audio Output Device - HDA NVidia - hdmi - 3 (ALSA) Passthrough output device - HDA NVidia - hdmi - 3 (ALSA) The TV is a Samsung UE46D7000 I'm new to this linux malarky, so any assistance would be welcomed. Cheers Graham RE: Problems with sound on HDMI connection - stelly - 2012-05-06 Well, no need to respond now. I installed ubuntu desktop 12.04 and everything is now functioning properly. I may install xbmc on top of ubuntu, but not sure if that is really necessary. Cheers G