My Toshiba Tecra S1 laptop is now about 4 years old. About a year after I bought it I also bought an AverMedia cardbus TV tuner which has always worked for video but never for audio.
I tested the card in an even older Dell laptop. Works fine.
I contacted Aver and received a software patch. Made no difference.
I suspect a hardware fault but it would probably be necessary to restore Windows XP to its original configuration as delivered before I could be sure and there has never been a convenient opportunity.
It may be significant that Toshiba didn't fit an audio line-in socket, just microphone and earphones which do work.
It was never really a big deal, so I didn't ask Toshiba for a investigation / repair.
I have tried a Hauppauge USB TV tuner and it works well enough in Windows. With it I have a choice. I can use digital audio (which works) or I can feed the audio through the microphone socket, which also works but the quality is poor and recording is problematic.
I am now very interested in Linux and have ubuntu 7.04 installed in dual boot with XP. I have managed to get several TV applications working (more or less) and, so far, there is still no sound from the TV card. I am still very uneducated where linux is concerned and it would be no surprise if I am missing something.
My question now is -- Is there a linux application / tool which I can use to test the audio system and maybe verify conclusively that the AverMedia TV sound will never work?
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