I have a Dell notebook with Nvidia Geforce GTX 1660 TI running Ubuntu 18.04. When I search for sound output, only the dummy output appears:
nvidia-smi
Thu Mar 19 12:04:22 2020
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 440.64.00 Driver Version: 440.64.00 CUDA Version: 10.2 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 GeForce GTX 166... On | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| N/A 53C P8 2W / N/A | 416MiB / 5944MiB | 8% Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: GPU Memory |
| GPU PID Type Process name Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 1093 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 28MiB |
| 0 1187 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 48MiB |
| 0 1509 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 181MiB |
| 0 1694 G /usr/bin/gnome-shell 89MiB |
| 0 2051 G ...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAgAAAAAAAAA --shared-files 62MiB |
| 0 3052 G gnome-control-center 1MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
and
$ aplay -L
default
Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
PulseAudio Sound Server
hdmi:CARD=NVidia,DEV=0
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
HDMI Audio Output
dmix:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
Direct sample mixing device
dsnoop:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
Direct sample snooping device
hw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=NVidia,DEV=3
HDA NVidia, HDMI 0
Hardware device with all software conversions ```
I hope that someone could help me.
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