........To another cup of Coffee.
In the immortal words of Scarlet O'Hara, "Tomorrow is another day."
I pulled and re-installed the auxiliary sound card; at no time did my hands leave my body but, PRESTO -- inputs and outputs ported in correct directions and now, FT-8 is being decoded -- "FM"! (Fuggin' Magic!)
The issue with the Video card is still there but, I really don't NEED two screens to work radio, the second was parked on QRZ so that I could look up the name behind the call and insert it in my RRR-73's message.
Never say "Die" until there is no more Coffee to mull my problems over.