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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
81Without any arguments,
82.Nm
83displays the current settings for all supported devices, followed by information
84about the current recording input devices.
85If the
86.Ar dev
87argument is specified,
88.Nm
89displays only the value for that
90.Ar dev .
91.Pp
92To modify the mixer value
93.Ar dev ,
94the optional left and right channel settings of
95.Ar lvol Ns Op : Ns Ar rvol
96may be specified.  The
97.Ar lvol
98and
99.Ar rvol
100arguments may be from 0 - 100.  Omitting
101.Ar dev
102and including only the channel settings will change the main volume level.
103.Pp
104If the left or right channel settings are prefixed with
105.Cm +
106or
107.Cm - ,
108the value following will be used as a relative adjustment, modifying the
109current settings by the amount specified.
110.Pp
111If the
112.Fl s
113flag is used, the current mixer values will be displayed in a format suitable
114for use as the command-line arguments to a future invocation of
115.Nm
116(as above).
117.Pp
118To change the recording device you use one of:
119.Bl -tag -width =rec -offset indent
120.It Cm ^rec
121toggles
122.Ar rdev
123of possible recording devices
124.It Cm +rec
125adds
126.Ar rdev
127to possible recording devices
128.It Cm -rec
129removes
130.Ar rdev
131from possible recording devices
132.It Cm =rec
133sets the recording device to
134.Ar rdev
135.El
136.Pp
137The above commands work on an internal mask.  After all the options
138have been parsed, it will set then read the mask from the sound card.
139This will let you see EXACTLY what the soundcard is using for the
140recording device(s).
141.Pp
142The option recsrc will display the current recording devices.
143.Pp
144The option
145.Fl f
146.Ar device
147will open
148.Ar device
149as the mixer device.
150.Sh FILES
151.Bl -tag -width /dev/mixer -compact
152.It Pa /dev/mixer
153the default mixer device
154.El
155.Sh SEE ALSO
156.Xr cdcontrol 1
157.Sh HISTORY
158The
159.Nm
160utility first appeared in
161.Fx 2.0.5 .
162.Sh AUTHORS
163.An -nosplit
164Original source by
165.An Craig Metz Aq cmetz@thor.tjhsst.edu
166and
167.An Hannu Savolainen .
168Mostly rewritten by
169.An John-Mark Gurney Aq jmg@FreeBSD.org .
170This
171manual page was written by
172.An Mike Pritchard Aq mpp@FreeBSD.org .
173