fftest(1)

📦 version 1.8.1, in alpine 3.24, arch rolling, centos-stream 9, debian bookworm, debian trixie, epel 10, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, opensuse-leap 16.0, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ fftest — the force-feedback vibe check ✨

okay so bestie, you found a fftest(1) page in the General Commands Manual and honestly? this one's short but it's spicy 🔥

🌸 NAME 🌸

fftest — it tests force-feedback devices 💅

like, rumbly controller go brrr, and this is how you find out what it can do.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

fftest <device>

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so here's the tea ☕

fftest ships a whole lil menu of tests that you can run against force-feedback devices. it's giving "let me poke every motor and see what happens" energy, and honestly? iconic. 👑

⚠️ BEWARE bestie ⚠️ — the tests may damage your device! not me being dramatic, that's literally what the page says 😭 so maybe don't run these on the one controller you actually love. fr fr.

💖 OPTIONS 💖

  • <device> — the device you wanna test 🫶 that's it, that's the whole list, no flags, no frills, just point it at your device and let it cook.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

your other faves, the little force-feedback friend group 🧚

👑 AUTHOR 👑

fftest was written by Johann Deneux. 💜

this manual page was written by Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others, she's generous like that ✨). It was last modified for fftest dated October 19, 2004. 🕰️

and that's the whole page bestie, tysm for reading, mwah 💖

signing off from the fftest corner of the General Commands Manual — version fftest, dated March 8, 2009 🌸 stay safe, back up your hardware, and don't blame me if your gamepad starts vibrating at 3am 😭👋

📦 where this page comes from