Test tone generator?

Hi,
Im doing some hardware amplifier repair work and I need a signal/function/test tone generator but I cant seem to find a decent working up-to-date one that runs under linux. Ive tried baudline_jack but it just segfaults when I hit record with the tone generator enabled. Ive tried siggen but it looks for /dev/audio or /dev/dsp (which I dont have) and it segfaults. Ive tried all of the arachnoid.com ones and the java script one does work but it is limited for my purposes in that it doesnt generate sweeps. Ive even tried looking for LADSPA and LV2 plugins but I couldnt really find anything. Basically im looking for something as close to this "Test Tone Generator" as possible.
Any Ideas?
Edit:
I can get by with using the arachnoid generators modulator instead of a dedicated sweep but I would still like to find a good replacement. THX
Last edited by assimilat (2013-01-15 20:08:03)

assimilat wrote:Ive tried siggen but it looks for /dev/audio or /dev/dsp (which I dont have) and it segfaults.
You don't have /dev/audio because ALSA's oss emulation modules aren't loaded by default. /dev/audio and /dev/dsp were created when I tried this:
# modprobe snd_pcm_oss
I don't know if this will get siggen working for you, I haven't tried it.
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