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