[Alsa-user] envy24control lack of controls. . .

[moron <mo...@in...>]

Howdy.  I recently snagged an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 so I could finally make 
use of Ardour for recordings.  

What is driving me nuts at the moment is that envy24control (and the 
associated kmix tool) seems to be setup so that the "gang" controls are 
mostly useless in that they only apply to a single channel,  so if you want 
say, PCM Out 1 (i.e. the left output) to go to both channels at equal volume 
then hey, we've got a program for you.   Why you would want to be able to 
gang left and right to *both* channels is another question - or perhaps the 
docs are misleading / wrong on this point? 

If you however want to have the setup presumably desired by 99.999999% of the 
users of this card of proper panned left and right channels, there is no way 
to gang pcm 1/2 out or even the DAC 1/2 controls.  

If you go in and setup the right / left muting correctly in envy24control, it  
gets reset to ganged if you use the kmix applet so you can control your 
desktop volume (when you perhaps want to kill of some frustration in UT2004 
between kernel recompiles).  

Am I correct that envy24control is broken (or at least missing functionality 
in this regard)?  If not and I am just an idiot (quite possible), please 
enlighten me on how to achieve this.  If I am not an idiot on this specific 
topic and this is a problem with the envy24control app, any suggestions on 
work arounds? 

=)

Major super duper bonus points if you can find a way of boosting the anemic 
input levels on the 2496 card (line level should mean line level).  

Cheers!

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