SB Surround Mixer Volume Bind Keys/Quick K

Howdy,
I was wondering if anyone knows if it's possible (either with an external program or not) to assign quick keys or bind keys to functions within the Surround Mixer for my Audigy 2 Platinum.
For example, I have a Logitech keyboard with a scroll wheel on the side and I within the Logitech software it is possible to assign it to control the master volume, but for my purposes I would like it (or even some regular keys on the keyboard) to control the gain slider for the the Auxiliary 2 Input. This would be helpful to me, so I can mix the volume of my audio coming in via RCA into Aux 2 on the fly, while Im in a fullscreen application that is also running audio that doesn't take kindly to being alt tabbed - which makes it difficult to open the Surround Mixer Window every time I want to change something.
Any ideas would be appreciated, thanks.

cgo wrote:
- the Thinkvantage button.
It has no symbol on xev, and acpi_listen says:
button/prog1 PROG1 00000080 00000000 K
I have no idea what to do for that.
From [ibm-acpi-devel] ThinkVantage key on ThinkPad X61
Is the mask value for this key 0x00000080 or 0x00001018?
Neither. In the documentation, you'll see a table with an entry for
each key. The table shows the "ACPI event" code (0x1018 in your]
example) and the "scan code" (0x17 corresponds to that event).
The documentation mentioned above is the README of the ibm-acpi,
where you hav ACPI events and scan codes explained. But, that's low-level thingy.
To configure the ThinkVantage button, simply follow instructions from the How to get special keys to work. For example, Open an application
where you can find out keycode with xev and map desired action with xmodmap.
(On my T400, under X11 the ThinkVantage button generates event with keycode 156. You need to check yours using xev.)
cgo wrote:- the audio volume controls show symbols (X86AudioMute etc...) but they are not linked to alsa mixer.
If someone has some tips/clues, please share.
Check the ThinkWiki article above, there are audio buttons explained too.

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