Hello Andrew! Can't alsa handle this on its own? alsamixer or amixer should be able to work with those things. Probably they dob't look to good, but they should do the trick. The standard ALS utility to restore controls is alsactl restore. Sorry, if that was beside the point? Kndly yours Julien -------- Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles) ======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ======== http://ltsb.sourceforge.net the Linux TextBased Studio guide ======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: ======= http://www.juliencoder.de

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Andrew Gaydenko <a(a)gaydenko.com> wrote: example script below. its not commented or explained, because i wrote it for me alone. #!/bin/bash AMIXER="amixer -q" CARD="-c 1" if [ x$1 = xon ] ; then gain=32768 verb="route" else gain=0 verb="mute" fi shift; #input_source : 0-25 (physical channels), # 26-51 (software playback) #output_source : 0-25 (physical channels), # 26-27 (line out) case $1 in play) for chn in $(seq 26 51);do $AMIXER $CARD cset numid=5 $chn,$(($chn-26)),$gain done ;; thru) for input in $(seq 0 25);do for output in $(seq 0 25); do if [ $input != $output ]; then $AMIXER $CARD cset numid=5 $input,$output,$gain fi done done ;; thru12) $AMIXER $CARD cset numid=5 0,0,$gain $AMIXER $CARD cset numid=5 1,1,$gain ;; mon) for chn in $(seq 26 51);do if [ $(($chn % 2)) -eq 0 ] ; then $AMIXER $CARD cset numid=5 $chn,$26,$gain else $AMIXER $CARD cset numid=5 $chn,$27,$gain fi done ;; all) for input in $(seq 0 51); do for output in $(seq 0 27); do echo -n "." if [ $gain = 0 -o $input != $output ]; then $AMIXER $CARD cset numid=5 $input,$output,$gain fi done echo done ;; esac