Re: Re: PSK31

Keith Powell wrote:

>On Tuesday 17 June 2003 9:15 am, Keith Powell wrote:
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>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Keith Powell" <[email protected]>
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>>>>Greetings!
>>>>
>>>>Has anyone managed to get GPSK31 or KPSK working with SuSE8.2?
>>>>
>>>>I have been trying for ages to get them working. All I get are two
>>>>error messages:
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>>>>Unable to open audio device /dev/audio.
>>>>Inexact sampling rate: request for 8000 resulted in 48000
>>>>
>>>>/dev/audio has the correct permissions, as far as I can tell (owner
>>>>root, group audio). I have tried altering it to me as the owner.
>>>>
>>>>I have tried altering the sample rate in K Control Centre --> Sound
>>>>system, but it has no effect. I have also tried disabling aRTs.
>>>>
>>>>Starting the programs in Libranet gives the same error messages, but I
>>>>can run PSK31 without problems in Windows98.
>>>>
>>>>Any advice will be gratefully received.
>>>>
>>>>73
>>>>
>>>>Keith  G4JVX
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>>>>
>>On Monday 16 June 2003 4:57 pm, Ed wrote:
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>>>Keith, just a guess, but does Suse find the sound card ?? I know Mandrake
>>>does not find ISA soundcards no matter what you do. I ended up buying a
>>>PCI card. BTW most onboard sound is run in ISA mode. GL...73
>>>
>>>Ed W3NR
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>>Wolf wrote:
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>>>Hi Keith,
>>>
>>>KPSK is working like a champ here under Suse 8.2.
>>>What kind of of soundcard do you use?
>>>It looks that you have a AC97  like Soundcard.
>>>
>>>These cards can't switch to another sample rate than 48000.
>>>Under M$shit the multimedia lib will do resample, under Linux is no such
>>>lib.
>>>I had to disable the onboard sound and insert my old SB PCI 128.
>>>I heard that Alsa hase the resampling feature but I dont know if its
>>>working with a AC97 sound card.
>>>
>>>73 de Wolf, DL2WRJ
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>>It's an AC97 chip on the MotherBoard. From what you have both said, that
>>seems to be the problem. I'll have to get a cheap PCI 128 card, which I
>>suppose must be Sound blaster compatible. I don't do any hi-fi stuff on the
>>computer, so it doesn't need to be a very expensive one.
>>
>>Many thanks for the advice and information. I really do appreciate it.
>>
>>73
>>
>>Keith  G4JVX
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>P.S. I forgot to add that SuSE does find the sound chip, as does Libranet. I 
>can play system sounds and CDs.
>
>Keith
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Hi Keith,

i had a similar problem using sound applications with a AC97 soundcard.
Did you try to restart alsa?
	su
	rcalsasound restart
After that it worked here.

73 Thomas dc1tma