Mark Thank you SOOOOO Much.  

Now my seventh day with this new Hp Omen X 17-ap0xx and its' Nvidia GTX 1080m 
(Hp's most awesome Laptop / GPU as of today WooHoo), and I always have despised
Windows and stuck with Ubuntu Since Vista 13 years ago - and proud to have
helped hundreds if not more convert to Ubuntu, but lately I am proud to say it
does not take too much effort as Ubuntu is so EASY, for all drivers and ease of
use, but,

BUT! With this Bleeding Edge Laptop I have been pulling out what hair is left
on my head trying to simply get HDMI sound working. I was starting to think I
was wrong 13 years later if Linux/Ubuntu can't even have digital sound easily
on a 6 month old Video card ... And NO help from 20+ sources, and then I
stumbled upon this fix.  Thank you So Much!   You have renewed my faith - So to
speak

And I have spread the word to every blog I was on about this problem with your
AWESOME Fix.

But Pray tell, 6 months later and linux/Ubuntu has not got this solved yet -
what is their PROBLEM!   Or is this an evolving problem from Hp getting
proprietary?  Can you respond to why this fix is not yet into the mainstream
Ubuntu?

Always Trying to help, and in this thanks for the help, Me Mark TOO - Cheers!