1 .TH ALSAMIXER 1 "15 May 2001"
3 alsamixer \- soundcard mixer for ALSA soundcard driver, with ncurses interface
6 \fBalsamixer\fP [\fIoptions\fP]
9 \fBalsamixer\fP is an ncurses mixer program for use with the ALSA
10 soundcard drivers. It supports multiple soundcards with multiple devices.
14 \fBalsamixer\fP [\fIoptions\fP]
20 Help: show available flags.
23 \fI-c\fP <card number or idenfication>
24 Select the soundcard to use, if you have more than one. Cards are
25 numbered from 0 (the default).
28 \fI-D\fP <device identification>
29 Select the mixer device to control.
32 \fI-g\fP <toggle color settings>
33 Toggle the using of colors.
36 \fI-m\fP <minimize mixer window>
37 Minimize the mixer window.
40 \fBalsamixer\fP recognizes the following keyboard commands to control the soundcard.
45 The \fILeft\fP and \fIright arrow\fP keys are used to select the
46 channel (or device, depending on your preferred terminology). You can
47 also use \fIn\fP ("next") and \fIp\fP ("previous").
49 The \fIUp\fP and \fIDown Arrows\fP control the volume for the
50 currently selected device. You can also use \fI+\fP or \fI-\fP for the
51 same purpose. Both the left and right signals are affected. For
52 independent left and right control, see below.
54 \fIM\fP toggles muting for the current channel (both left and right). You can
55 mute left and right independently by using \fI,\fP and \fI.\fP respectively.
57 \fISPACE\fP toggles recording: the current channel will be added or
58 removed from the sources used for recording. This only works for valid
59 input channels, of course.
61 \fIR\fP toggle display of playback or record mixer.
63 \fIL\fP re-draws the screen.
65 \fITAB\fP toggles the mode for volume display. See description for the
71 \fIPageUp\fP increases volume by 10.
73 \fIPageDown\fP decreases volume by 10.
75 \fIHome\fP sets volume to maximum.
77 \fIEnd\fP sets volume to 0.
79 You can also control left & right levels for the current channel
80 independently, as follows:
82 [\fIQ\fP | \fIW\fP | \fIE\fP ] -- turn UP [ left | both | right ]
84 [\fIZ\fP | \fIX\fP | \fIC\fP ] -- turn DOWN [ left | both | right ]
86 If the currently selected mixer channel is not a stereo channel, then
87 all UP keys will work like \fIW\fP, and all DOWN keys will work like \fIX\fP.
92 Quit the program with \fIALT Q\fP, or by hitting \fIESC\fP.
102 Some terminal emulators (e.g. \fBnxterm\fP) may not
103 work quite right with ncurses, but that's their own damn
104 fault. Plain old \fBxterm\fP seems to be fine.
108 has been written by Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org> and
109 been furtherly improved by Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>.
111 This manual page was provided by Paul Winkler <zarmzarm@erols.com>.