On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 12:29:29PM +0000, Dave Silvester wrote: -snip- > My main problem is that I can't find a way to get Envy24Control to load my > default settings each time, and alsactl doesn't seem to want to do it either, > so every time I want to use the sound card I have to manually load > Envy24Control and select my default setting - only takes a few seconds > though, so it's not much hassle. (It's just a bit annoying, because I can't > find a way to automate it - Envy24Control doesn't seem to have any command > line parameters!) -snip- > > Cheers, > > ~Dave > > -- > > Dave Silvester > Music Technology Junkie | Rentable Website Monkey > http://www.mu-sly.co.uk | http://www.rentamonkey.com I have never used envy24control, as i only got old Creative hw :( But i managed to get this info out of the app: envy24control: invalid option -- ? usage: envy24control [-c card#] [-D control-name] [-o num-outputs] [-i num-inputs] [-p num-pcm-outputs] [-s num-spdif-in/outs] [-v] [-f profiles-file] [profile name|profile id] -c, --card Alsa card number to control -D, --device control-name -o, --outputs Limit number of analog line outputs to display -i, --input Limit number of analog line inputs to display -p, --pcm_output Limit number of PCM outputs to display -s, --spdif Limit number of spdif inputs/outputs to display -v, --view_spdif_playback shows the spdif playback channels in the mixer -f, --profiles_file use file as profiles file So envy24control -f <profile> is probably what you want. -- Frode Haugsgjerd Norway