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