[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#702299: alsa-utils: Please increase upper frequency limit

[Torquil Macdonald Sørensen]

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.0.25-4
Severity: wishlist

There seems to be an upper frequency limit of 5kHz when the
speaker-test program is used to generate a sinusoid signal.

When I ask the program for a higher frequency, a 5kHz signal
is produced, without any warning that the program has reduced
the frequency from my requested value.

A frequency of 5kHz is too low for testing the upper register
of audible sounds.

Please increase this to e.g. 20kHz, and please include
information about these lower and upper limits in the man
page, together with the description of the --rate option.

Best regards
Torquil Sørensen

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (700, 'unstable'), (500, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.7.10 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on:
ii  dialog          1.1-20120215-3
ii  kmod            9-2
ii  libasound2      1.0.25-4
ii  libc6           2.13-38
ii  libncursesw5    5.9-10
ii  libsamplerate0  0.1.8-5
ii  libtinfo5       5.9-10
ii  lsb-base        4.1+Debian9
ii  whiptail        0.52.14-11.1

Versions of packages alsa-utils recommends:
ii  alsa-base  1.0.25+2+nmu2
ii  pciutils   1:3.1.9-6

alsa-utils suggests no packages.

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