[ale] Finally making progress with F8, tvtime, and sound

[Thompson Freeman]

First, let me thank the list for putting up with my rant the other day 
and not bothering with replys. I feel better now, and maybe I've got 
some information which will allow getting things to work the way _I_ 
want them to work.

A partial recap. I have a Celeron 1.8 GHz based machine with a bt878 
based TV card which was working just fine under Fedora Core 6. Of 
course, FC6 is EOL, so I installed F8, which killed the TV sound track. 
(I was also having challenges with other sound sources, but let that 
ride for the time being.)

With little to lose, and frustration hitting the hot button, I tried 
the following alternatives: Knoppix 5.1, Ubuntu 7.10, CentOS 5.1 and 
Fedora 7 all with similar complete lack of sucess. Pleanty of time 
spent with Google also here, thinking that there was a driver issue or 
something.

Today I finally had a tiny brainstorm (it hurt). Since the TV card has 
an audio out plug - why not disconnect the internal connection between 
the TV card and the sound card, and just hook a pair of speakers up??? 
Too obvious, but that provides the sound from the TV card. So at least 
I have a work around, even if having two sets of speakers running has a 
significant impact on that desk area.

Now what I would like to be able to do is discover how to get the old 
setup running again. That is, connect the TV card internally with the 
internal aux2 plug of my sound card and have that connection work, and 
be controllable. I'm at a loss how to Google that setup, so I'd really 
like to borry a clue from somebody here.

Thanks  to one and all for the use of the bandwidth.