alsa-utils/speaker-test/speaker-test.1

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.TH SPEAKER\-TEST 1 "20 September 2004" speaker-test
.SH NAME
speaker\-test \- command-line speaker test tone generator for ALSA 
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B speaker\-test [\-options]

.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBspeaker\-test\fP generates a tone that can be used to test the speakers of a computer.

.SH OPTIONS

.TP
\fB\-c\fP | \fB\-\-channels\fP \fINUM\fP
\fINUM\fP channels in stream

.TP
\fB\-D\fP | \fB\-\-device\fP \fINAME\fP
PCM device name \fINAME\fP

.TP
\fB\-f\fP | \fB\-\-frequency\fP \fIFREQ\fP
sine wave of \fIFREQ\fP Hz

.TP
\fB\-\-help\fP
Print usage help

.TP
\fB\-b\fP | \fB\-\-buffer\fP \fITIME\fP
Use buffer size of \fITIME\fP microseconds.
When 0 is given, use the maximal buffer size.
The default value is 0.

.TP
\fB\-p\fP | \fB\-\-period\fP \fITIME\fP
Use period size of \fITIME\fP microseconds.
When 0 is given, the periods given by \fB\-P\fP option is used.
The default value is 0.

.TP
\fB\-P\fP | \fB\-\-nperiods\fP \fPERIODS\fP
Use number of periods.  The default value is 4.

.TP
\fB\-r\fP | \fB\-\-rate\fP \fIRATE\fP
stream of \fIRATE\fP Hz

.TP
\fB\-t\fP | \fB\-\-test\fP \fBpink\fP|\fBsine\fP|\fBwav\fP
\fB\-t pink\fP means use pink noise (default).

Pink noise is perceptually uniform noise -- that is, it sounds like every frequency at once.  If you can hear any tone it may indicate resonances in your speaker system or room.

\fB\-t sine\fP means to use sine wave.

\fB\-t wav\fP means to play WAV files, either pre-defined files or given via \fB\-w\fP option.

You can pass the number from 1 to 3 as a backward compatibility.

.TP
\fB\-l\fP | \fB\-\-nloops\fP \fBCOUNT\fP

Specifies the number of loops.  Zero means to run infinitely.

When \fB\-s\fP option below with a valid channel is given, \fBspeaker\-test\fP will perform
always a single-shot without looping.

.TP
\fB\-s\fP | \fB\-\-speaker\fP \fBCHANNEL\fP
Do a single-shot speaker test for the given channel.  The channel number starts from 1.
The channel number corresponds to left, right, rear-left, rear-right, center, LFE,
side-left, side-right, and so on.

For example, when 1 is passed, it tests the left channel only once rather than both channels
with looping.

.TP
\fB\-w\fP | \fB\-\-wavfile\fP
Use the given WAV file for the playback instead of pre-defined WAV files.

.TP
\fB\-W\fP | \fB\-\-wavdir\fP
Specify the directory containing WAV files for playback.
The default path is \fI/usr/share/sounds/alsa\fP.


.SH USAGE EXAMPLES

Produce stereo sound from one stereo jack:
.EX
  speaker-test -Dplug:front -c2
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Produce 4 speaker sound from two stereo jacks:
.EX
  speaker-test -Dplug:surround40 -c4
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Produce 5.1 speaker sound from three stereo jacks:
.EX
  speaker-test -Dplug:surround51 -c6
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To send a nice low 75Hz tone to the Woofer and then exit without touching any other speakers:
.EX
  speaker-test -Dplug:surround51 -c6 -s1 -f75
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.SH AUTHOR
The speaker-test program was written by James Courtier-Dutton.
Pink noise support was added by Nathan Hurst.
Further extensions by Takashi Iwai.