[Cbe-oss-dev] Problems with ALSA / PulseAudio on PS3

[Kevin Gilbert]

Hi,

I'm trying to get a JukeBox application working on a PS3 - it's using Qt 
Embedded / Phonon / ALSA / PulseAudio and I've have been having problems with 
the ALSA / PulseAudio part. I'm posting here because underneath all of that is 
the kernel I built from 
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geoff/ps3-linux.git.

Over the past couple of days, the problem has been investigated by the good 
folk at PulseAudio (see https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-
discuss/2008-August/002249.html for the gory details). The bottom line with 
that investigation is the following:

"Umpf. there seems to be something very broken here in the audio driver or 
alsa-libs. We only support interleaved channels. This assert above is always 
true for interleaved channels. We ask the ALSA driver for interleaved 
channels. But apparently it gave us some more complex channel arrangement. 
Please report to the ALSA people."

Before I report this to the ALSA crowd, is there anything in the PS3 kernel 
that could affect the ALSA implementation? IE, would I be wasting their time 
by reporting this problem to them?

Thanks in advance,
Kevin