[LAU] Audiophile 24/96 volume weirdness

[Q]

On 16/02/13 00:08, Chris Caudle wrote:
> On Fri, February 15, 2013 3:27 pm,
> linux-audio-user-request at lists.linuxaudio.org wrote:
>> Often, but not always, when I start my machine I'll only get sound from
>> the left channel.
>
> Is L/R Gang selected on the monitor PCM tab?
>

It's the DAC2 level on the Analog Volume tab that I've been wiggling to 
sort it out.

On the PCM tab I have PCM 3 to 8 L/R ganged and muted. PCM 1 and 2 were 
unganged and for PCM 1 the right hand fader was lowered and muted and 
for PCM 2 the left hand fader was lowered and muted -- otherwise I end 
up with hugely overdriven mono.


>> I have a permanent /home and my OS on a separate partition -- could this
>> be caused by a config file somewhere on /home and if so, where might I
>> find it to sort this problem out?
>
> Depending on the version of mudita the config file is in either
> ~/envy24control/profiles.conf or ~/.envy24control/profiles.conf.  Newer
> versions have the file in .envy24control, I think the placement in
> envy24control was just a mistake in version 1.0.
>

I have none of those.

Thinking further on it, I wonder whether this is further complicated by 
having installed both Ubuntu Studio 12.04 last year and 12.10 this week 
without a /home, then post-install editing fstab to point it to my RAID 
as /home. I do this because the installer can't handle RAIDs. I wonder 
whether it's put the config files somewhere else because of this scenario.

I think the right-channel volume thing started around the same time that 
I lost all SPDIF output from the 24/96, which is really annoying. I 
swapped the cables over and that made no difference (and it didn't 
affect input to the card, i.e. both cables are fine), neither did 
swapping the card for another.

In the end I put it down to the DAC in my Focusrite TwinTrak having died 
(although I haven't investigated this further) and have had to put up 
with analogue out of the 24/96 ever since. If this also turned out to be 
a software issue and could be fixed I'd be overjoyed.

Thanks

Q