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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.Op Fl h
42.Oo
43.Ar dev
44.Sm off
45.Oo
46.Op Cm + | -
47.Ar lvol
48.Op : Oo Cm + | - Oc Ar rvol
49.Oc
50.Oc
51.Sm on
52.Ar ...
53.Nm
54.Op Fl f Ar device
55.Op Fl s
56.Cm recsrc
57.Ar ...
58.Nm
59.Op Fl f Ar device
60.Op Fl s
61.Sm off
62.Bro
63.Cm ^ | + | - | =
64.Brc
65.Cm rec
66.Sm on
67.Ar rdev ...
68.Sh DESCRIPTION
69The
70.Nm
71utility is used to set and display soundcard mixer device levels.
72It may
73also be used to start and stop recording from the soundcard.  The list
74of mixer devices that may be modified are:
75.Pp
76.Bd -ragged -offset indent
77vol, bass, treble, synth, pcm, speaker, mic, cd, mix,
78pcm2, rec, igain, ogain, line1, line2, and line3.
79.Ed
80.Pp
81Not all mixer devices are available.
82.Pp
83Without any arguments,
84.Nm
85displays the current settings for all supported devices, followed by information
86about the current recording input devices.
87If the
88.Ar dev
89argument is specified,
90.Nm
91displays only the value for that
92.Ar dev .
93.Pp
94To modify the mixer value
95.Ar dev ,
96the optional left and right channel settings of
97.Ar lvol Ns Op : Ns Ar rvol
98may be specified.  The
99.Ar lvol
100and
101.Ar rvol
102arguments may be from 0 - 100.  Omitting
103.Ar dev
104and including only the channel settings will change the main volume level.
105.Pp
106If the left or right channel settings are prefixed with
107.Cm +
108or
109.Cm - ,
110the value following will be used as a relative adjustment, modifying the
111current settings by the amount specified.
112.Pp
113If the
114.Fl s
115flag is used, the current mixer values will be displayed in a format suitable
116for use as the command-line arguments to a future invocation of
117.Nm
118(as above).
119.Pp
120To change the recording device you use one of:
121.Bl -tag -width =rec -offset indent
122.It Cm ^rec
123toggles
124.Ar rdev
125of possible recording devices
126.It Cm +rec
127adds
128.Ar rdev
129to possible recording devices
130.It Cm -rec
131removes
132.Ar rdev
133from possible recording devices
134.It Cm =rec
135sets the recording device to
136.Ar rdev
137.El
138.Pp
139The above commands work on an internal mask.  After all the options
140have been parsed, it will set then read the mask from the sound card.
141This will let you see EXACTLY what the soundcard is using for the
142recording device(s).
143.Pp
144The option recsrc will display the current recording devices.
145.Pp
146The option
147.Fl f
148.Ar device
149will open
150.Ar device
151as the mixer device.
152.Pp
153The option
154.Fl h
155will print a help and exit
156.Sh FILES
157.Bl -tag -width /dev/mixer -compact
158.It Pa /dev/mixer
159the default mixer device
160.El
161.Sh SEE ALSO
162.Xr cdcontrol 1
163.Sh HISTORY
164The
165.Nm
166utility first appeared in
167.Fx 2.0.5 .
168.Sh AUTHORS
169.An -nosplit
170Original source by
171.An Craig Metz Aq cmetz@thor.tjhsst.edu
172and
173.An Hannu Savolainen .
174Mostly rewritten by
175.An John-Mark Gurney Aq jmg@FreeBSD.org .
176This
177manual page was written by
178.An Mike Pritchard Aq mpp@FreeBSD.org .
179