On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 01:31:43PM -0300, luis jure wrote: > el Thu, 13 May 2004 15:53:25 -0400 > Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <rzewnickie@xxxxxxx> escribi?: > > > You should use > > envy24control instead of alsamixer. Things will make much more sense. > > i'm the OP and yes, i _do_ have envy24control installed. it may make a bit > more sense, but i can't see that it makes _much_ more sense. i mean, i still > find many things rather unclear. > > in any case, i'm still puzzled by my original questions: > > 1) is it necessary to change mixer settings to toggle between monitoring the > input and playback? > > 2) how do you control input level for analog inputs? > > 3) is there a way to capture what's being sent to analog outputs? I'll admit to being a bit confused by envy24control at first, too. I'll try to answer these questions at home tonight while sitting in front of my audiobox. I could try to answer from memory .... but it wouldn't be much use to you I'm afraid. 8-) I think the thing that helped me most was reading through the manual for my card and matching up the capabilities described with the controls in envy24control. -Eric Rz.