[LAU] RME HDSP 9632 - amixer control

Hello all. I am new to the list. However I am not new to the Linux audio community. ;) Strange though that I never really heard/read about it. Anyhow -- here I am. Let see if I can find a solution to my challenge. I am running latest Alsa 1.0.21b. I just installed a RME HDSP 9632. My challenge: The machine is supposed to run headless. This requires an automatic activation of the card. Some channels and volume have to be initialized during startup without X being up and running. As it seems without starting up HDSPmixer incl. preset it is not possible to get the card going. However: The amixer control seems to allow to control the "Mixer" control with three variables. I do not have a clue how to do the intital setting via amixer - is it possible at all - what logic is behind it? Would be great if somebody could sched some light on the subject. Interesting to know would be how to achieve a "neutral" setting in terms of volume control. And how to read out the current status. THX a lot \Klaus P.S. Anybody ever thought to transfer HDSPMixer to commandline/ncurses?