[ILUG] few quick q's to save me diggin

[Ulysees]

Anybody had experiance with using a hauppauge wintv theater and xawtv ? I've
got it working but it's kinda horrible looking, am I being silly or is there
somewhere I can tweak it so as I can get the channels tunned in fully ?

Does anybody know of any packages/projects that take advantage of the rest
of the goodies in the wintv theater, like text and the remote ?

Surround sound, where to go ?
got the hardware, works under doze, but am only getting 2 speaker output
using esound.

Uly