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