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31.Dd January 9, 1997
32.Dt MIXER 8
33.Os
34.Sh NAME
35.Nm mixer
36.Nd set/display soundcard mixer values
37.Sh SYNOPSIS
38.Nm
39.Op Fl f Ar device
40.Op Fl s
41.Oo
42.Oo Ar dev
43.Op Ar lvol Ns Op : Ns Ar rvol
44.Cm | recsrc |
45.Sm off
46.Eo \&{
47.Cm ^ | + | - | =
48.Sm on
49.Ec \&} Ns Cm rec
50.Ar rdev
51.Oc
52.Ar ...
53.Oc
54.Sh DESCRIPTION
55The
56.Nm
57utility is used to set and display soundcard mixer device levels.
58It may
59also be used to start and stop recording from the soundcard.  The list
60of mixer devices that may be modified are:
61.Pp
62.Bd -ragged -offset indent
63vol, bass, treble, synth, pcm, speaker, mic, cd, mix,
64pcm2, rec, igain, ogain, line1, line2, and line3.
65.Ed
66.Pp
67Not all mixer devices are available.
68.Pp
69When
70.Nm
71is run without any arguments, all supported devices are displayed
72along with current values.
73If the
74.Ar dev
75argument is specified, the value for the
76.Ar dev
77device will be displayed.
78.Pp
79To modify the mixer value
80.Ar dev ,
81the optional left and right channel settings of
82.Ar lvol Ns Op : Ns Ar rvol
83may be specified.  The
84.Ar lvol
85and
86.Ar rvol
87arguments may be from 0 - 100.  Omitting
88.Ar dev
89and including only the channel settings will change the main volume level.
90.Pp
91If the
92.Fl s
93flag is used, the current mixer values will be displayed in a format suitable
94for use as the command-line arguments to a future invocation of
95.Nm
96(as above).
97.Pp
98To change the recording device you use one of:
99.Bl -tag -width =rec -offset indent
100.It Cm ^rec
101toggles
102.Ar rdev
103of possible recording devices
104.It Cm +rec
105adds
106.Ar rdev
107to possible recording devices
108.It Cm -rec
109removes
110.Ar rdev
111from possible recording devices
112.It Cm =rec
113sets the recording device to
114.Ar rdev
115.El
116.Pp
117The above commands work on an internal mask.  After all the options
118have been parsed, it will set then read the mask from the sound card.
119This will let you see EXACTLY what the soundcard is using for the
120recording device(s).
121.Pp
122The option recsrc will display the current recording devices.
123.Pp
124The option
125.Fl f
126.Ar device
127will open
128.Ar device
129as the mixer device.
130.Sh FILES
131.Bl -tag -width /dev/mixer -compact
132.It Pa /dev/mixer
133the default mixer device
134.El
135.Sh SEE ALSO
136.Xr cdcontrol 1
137.Sh HISTORY
138The
139.Nm
140utility first appeared in
141.Fx 2.0.5 .
142.Sh AUTHORS
143.An -nosplit
144Original source by
145.An Craig Metz Aq cmetz@thor.tjhsst.edu
146and
147.An Hannu Savolainen .
148Mostly rewritten by
149.An John-Mark Gurney Aq jmg@FreeBSD.org .
150This
151manual page was written by
152.An Mike Pritchard Aq mpp@FreeBSD.org .
153