SYNOPSIS
alsamixer [options]
DESCRIPTION
alsamixer is an ncurses mixer program for use with the
ALSA soundcard drivers. It supports multiple soundcards
with multiple devices.
INVOKING
alsamixer [options]
Options
-h, -help
Help: show available flags.
-c <card number or idenfication>
Select the soundcard to use, if you have more than
one. Cards are numbered from 0 (the default).
-D <device identification>
Select the mixer device to control.
-g <toggle color settings>
Toggle the using of colors.
-s <minimize mixer window>
Minimize the mixer window.
KEYBOARD COMMANDS
alsamixer recognizes the following keyboard commands to
control the soundcard.
General Controls
The Left and right arrow keys are used to select the chan
nel (or device, depending on your preferred terminology).
You can also use n ("next") and p ("previous").
The Up and Down Arrows control the volume for the cur
rently selected device. You can also use + or - for the
same purpose. Both the left and right signals are
affected. For independent left and right control, see
below.
L re-draws the screen.
Quick Volume Changes
PageUp increases volume by 5.
PageDown decreases volume by 5.
End sets volume to 0.
You can also control left & right levels for the current
channel independently, as follows:
[Q | W | E ] -- turn UP [ left | both | right ]
[Z | X | C ] -- turn DOWN [ left | both | right ]
If the currently selected mixer channel is not a stereo
channel, then all UP keys will work like W, and all DOWN
keys will work like X.
Exiting
Quit the program with ALT Q, or by hitting ESC. Please
note that you might need to hit ESC twice on some termi
nals since it's regarded as a prefix key.
SEE ALSO
amixer(1), aplay(1), arecord(1)
BUGS
Some terminal emulators (e.g. nxterm) may not work quite
right with ncurses, but that's their own damn fault. Plain
old xterm seems to be fine.
AUTHOR
alsamixer has been written by Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org> and
been furtherly improved by Jaroslav Kysela
<perex@suse.cz>.
This manual page was provided by Paul Winkler
<zarmzarm@erols.com>.
15 May 2001 ALSAMIXER(1)
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