Generating tones

[sarahslagstedt]

How do I generate a tone 180 Hz? Is there some tone generator somewhere that I can download to FC 6?

[johnlvs2run]

I'm also interested in a tone generator, and see that Audacity > Generate->Tone can determine frequency, duration, waveform, and amplitude.

I was going to try it but see that Audacity is not listed on Fedora 16 64.

Is anyone familiar with using Audacity or something else as a tone generator?

Thanks

[DBelton]

Audacity is available in 2 easy locations for Fedora 16...

without support for mp3 and ffmpeg import/export is in the standard fedora repo.
with support for mp3 and ffmpeg import/export is in the rpmfusion repo.

To install audacity without mp3/ffmpeg

yum install audacity

To install audacity with mp3/ffmpeg

Be sure you have the rpmfusion repos installed. http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration
yum install audacity-freeworld

[johnlvs2run]

Awesome. Thanks very much.

[DBelton]

Just a note. You can't have both installed at the same time.

If you have audacity installed from the fedora repo, you have to uninstall in before you install audacity-freeworld from the rpmfusion repo.

I would choose the audacity-freeworld package from rpmfusion, if I was going to install one or the other.

[PabloTwo]

For a really "simple" tone generator:

sudo yum install alsa-utils
speaker-test -t sine -f 180 -c 2

See "man speaker-test" for the command line details.