Problem with sound card mixer

[wantilles]

Hello everybody.

I happen to own a Terratec DMX 6Fire 24-96 sound card and I am facing some sort of inconvenience. I will explain.

The card, instead of having fixed sound outputs for various sources in its mixer (pcm, midi, cd digital etc.) it seems to have 6 identical DACs which can be customly mapped to any sound source with names DAC1, DAC2 and so on.

Is there a way to permanently rename these (through a configuration file perhaps) to more discrete and more usable names, for example, pcm, midi, cd-digital and so on.

I know that people with the slightly older DMX 6Fire 1024 or Audigy 2 sound cards have equivalent problems.

I have no problem with sound. Applications like XMMS, beep media player, Totem and KMPlayer produce sound normally.

As I have said, while the problem is mainly cosmetic, it would be very helpful if these names could be changed.

I am running the ALSA Ice1712 driver, with gentoo-dev-sources (2.6.5) and Gnome 2.6.

Specifically I am interested in changing the names that appear in the following mixers:

- alsamixer (console)
- Gnome Volume Control (Gnome Panel)
- Gnome ALSA Mixer (ALSA volume control)

Thank you in advance for your time.

[wantilles]

I cannot believe no one else has the same problem since it has been known to happen to Audigy 2 cards as well.

[Woody]

Renaming devices in alsa is easy and fun. Just create
a ~/.asoundrc file with definitions. Start with the various
examples at:

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/doc-php/template.php?company=Terratec&card=DMX6Fire&chip=Envy24&module=ice1712

[wantilles]