From: "Eliot Blennerhassett" <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cards have only one mixer, to which all the PCM devices are 'connected' Ah, I didn't realise that. Below is the output of amixer -i controls. Thanks for your help! Cheers, -- Olly -----vt1616controls----- numid=11,iface=MIXER,name='Master Mono Playback Switch' numid=12,iface=MIXER,name='Master Mono Playback Volume' numid=47,iface=MIXER,name='Master Playback Switch' numid=46,iface=MIXER,name='Master Playback Volume' numid=9,iface=MIXER,name='Headphone Playback Switch' numid=10,iface=MIXER,name='Headphone Playback Volume' numid=36,iface=MIXER,name='3D Control - Center' numid=37,iface=MIXER,name='3D Control - Depth' numid=33,iface=MIXER,name='3D Control - Switch' numid=28,iface=MIXER,name='PCM Playback Switch' numid=29,iface=MIXER,name='PCM Playback Volume' numid=1,iface=MIXER,name='Front Playback Switch' numid=2,iface=MIXER,name='Front Playback Volume' numid=7,iface=MIXER,name='Surround Playback Switch' numid=8,iface=MIXER,name='Surround Playback Volume' numid=3,iface=MIXER,name='Center Playback Switch' numid=4,iface=MIXER,name='Center Playback Volume' numid=5,iface=MIXER,name='LFE Playback Switch' numid=6,iface=MIXER,name='LFE Playback Volume' numid=20,iface=MIXER,name='Line Playback Switch' numid=21,iface=MIXER,name='Line Playback Volume' numid=22,iface=MIXER,name='CD Playback Switch' numid=23,iface=MIXER,name='CD Playback Volume' numid=19,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Boost (+20dB)' numid=35,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Select' numid=17,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Playback Switch' numid=18,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Playback Volume' numid=15,iface=MIXER,name='Phone Playback Switch' numid=16,iface=MIXER,name='Phone Playback Volume' numid=24,iface=MIXER,name='Video Playback Switch' numid=25,iface=MIXER,name='Video Playback Volume' numid=13,iface=MIXER,name='PC Speaker Playback Switch' numid=14,iface=MIXER,name='PC Speaker Playback Volume' numid=26,iface=MIXER,name='Aux Playback Switch' numid=27,iface=MIXER,name='Aux Playback Volume' numid=34,iface=MIXER,name='Mono Output Select' numid=30,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Source' numid=31,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Switch' numid=32,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Volume' numid=38,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Playback Con Mask' numid=39,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Playback Pro Mask' numid=42,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Playback AC97-SPSA' numid=40,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Playback Default' numid=41,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Playback Switch' numid=51,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Output Switch' numid=43,iface=MIXER,name='Alternate Level to Surround Out' numid=44,iface=MIXER,name='Downmix LFE and Center to Front' numid=45,iface=MIXER,name='Downmix Surround to Front' numid=48,iface=MIXER,name='External Amplifier' numid=49,iface=MIXER,name='Input Source Select' numid=50,iface=MIXER,name='Input Source Select',index=1 numid=52,iface=MIXER,name='VIA DXS Playback Volume' numid=53,iface=MIXER,name='VIA DXS Playback Volume',index=1 numid=54,iface=MIXER,name='VIA DXS Playback Volume',index=2 numid=55,iface=MIXER,name='VIA DXS Playback Volume',index=3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user