Remco, using aucat did the job....very simple "fix" was to use your suggestion and insert aucat_flags= into /etc/rc.conf.local
And I used default for the audio device in /usr/local/share/gpsk31/gpsk.conf Thanks for the direct and simple suggestion! On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Remco <re...@d-compu.dyndns.org> wrote: > Tracy Bales wrote: > > > OK...I did a system reboot. And now I'm finding out that the azalia > > driver > > will not change the sample rate from 48 KHz to 8 KHz. I also tried using > > audioctl record.sample_rate=8000 but it returns with record.sample_rate: > > 48000 -> 48000 > > > > So, is the problem with the azalia driver or my hardware? Can others > > running the azalia driver change their sample_rate to anything else but > > 48000? > > > > The ALC888 chip supports 44.1/48/96/192 kHz, but that's not necessarily a > show stopper. > > > On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Tracy Bales <balestr...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> I'm running OpenBSD 5.0/i386. I used pkg_add to install the gpsk31 > >> package. I tried running the program with the following sound devices: > >> default, /dev/audio, /dev/audioctl and /dev/sound. Each attempt to > >> execute gpsk31 returns the following: > >> > >> init_audio: can't open /dev/audio > >> Cannot initialize audio device: /dev/audio -1 > >> > > AFAICT /dev/audioctl can't be used to play audio. > > Unfortunately the error message is a bit vague, the program doesn't really > tell the reason of the failure. In general you're most likely best of by > not using these audio devices directly. Try running aucat(1) as a daemon > (e.g.: aucat -l), this would also take care of sample rate conversions. > (usually automatically) > To have aucat start up at boot time you'll need at least an > empty "aucat_flags=" in your rc.conf.local file. > > I don't know gpsk31 and whether it has been converted to use OpenBSD's > libsndio, but I reckon it has, otherwise you're probably out of luck. If it > has, you should be able to use sndio(7) device names. (e.g. aucat:0 > i.o. /dev/audio) > > I also advise to read the mentioned man pages.
