arcofi(4)

arcofi4

Siemens psb2160 audio codec

Usage

arcofi* at gsc? audio* at arcofi?

Overview

The arcofi driver supports the HP “Audio1” audio devices, based upon the Siemens PSB2160 “ARCOFI” codec, to implement the audio device interface described in audio(4).

This device is found onboard HP 9000 workstations models 425e, 705 and 710.

The arcofi is limited to a mono, 8000 KHz sound, either with 8-bit phone-quality mu-law or a-law samples, or 16-bit signed linear samples in big-endian byte order.

Audioctl settings

The following encodings are supported:

AUDIO_ENCODING_ULAW
AUDIO_ENCODING_ALAW
AUDIO_ENCODING_SLINEAR_BE

Natively supported.

AUDIO_ENCODING_SLINEAR

Software converted to AUDIO_ENCODING_ULAW encoding.

AUDIO_ENCODING_SLINEAR_LE
AUDIO_ENCODING_ULINEAR_LE
AUDIO_ENCODING_ULINEAR_BE

Software converted to AUDIO_ENCODING_SLINEAR_BE encoding.

Mixerctl settings

The arcofi has three audio ports:

inputs.line

The ‘line in’ jack connector.

outputs.line

The ‘line out’ jack connector.

outputs.spkr

The built-in speaker.

Each port has a volume control, and can be muted.

The outputs.line and outputs.spkr volume settings are tied to the same hardware setting.

Releases

31 releases since OpenBSD 5.1; the text changed 2 times.

  1. 5.1–5.5
  2. 5.6–6.6
  3. 6.7–8.0

History

OpenBSD support for arcofi first appeared in OpenBSD 5.1.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.