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Finally decided to do something with my Raspberry Pi.  Made a desktop to put it the den. Normally I use a composite monitor, but I decided to use a VGA monitor with an HDMI to VGA adapter. Unfortunately the adapter did not support sound, so I had to use the standard analog audio adapter. Well I hooked everything up and everything was working but the sound. Hmmm. The sound worked before. Did a bit of research and found I had to use a utility to change the default sound output. $ sudo raspi-config  You want to choose advanced options, then  The you want to choose the audio option, then And then lastly choose the output device desired. Wow, the sound worked again. By the way I used xrdp to remote into the rpi to make screen capture easier.

It is challenging to have to provide a keyboard and a mouse to multiple machines, so why not remote into them. The Raspberry pi is an exemplary system for using remotely.To set this up you will want to remotely log into the RPi to set up xrdp.  ssh pi@192.168.1.116 pi@oerpi02 ~ $ sudo apt-get install xrdp That is all for the RPi side, so all you have to do is log in remotely. Fire up you remote desktop viewer. Enter in the appropriate settings. Type in login and password. And viola you have a remote connection, Some people have found this post also useful: http://computoman.blogspot.com/2011/11/red-october-network-discovery.html