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