Help! Anybody got pctv 800i working on Intrepid

[Mike Adolf]

I have waited for the arrival of Ubuntu 8.10 in hopes that my pctv 800i 
tuner would work.  Reading the various mail lists assured me it would 
never work on 8.04, something about the alsa kernel modules screwed up 
or left out. After moving to Intrepid, I downloaded and installed the 
tuner firmware to lib/firmware/<kernel> as was recommended on mythtv 
site.  I was very excited when TVtime showed a crisp picture, but I was 
brought back to Ubuntu reality when the audio did not work.  All other 
audio on my system works fine.  What is so different about a tuner that 
makes it so hard to get working? Extremely frustrating!  Of course it 
works on Windows.  Most of what I read on the lists was out dated 
relative to tv on Intrepid.  I'm not trying to get mythtv to work.  I 
just want the turner to work. Does anyone have any ideas?

Mike