At Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:09:09 -0700, Allyn, Mark A wrote:

Hello:

Where is the correct place to discuss issues pertaining to snd-bt-sco and its relationship with Alsa? I am having trouble getting snd-bt-sco to work with Alsa 1.0.14rc3. I am getting a kernel oops for a NULL pointer somewhere in snd_bt_sco_playback_open. I looked on the blutooth-alsa sourceforge site, it seems that snd-bt-sco is no longer maintained and that they are going toward a solution using something called plugz. Plugz, however requires a kernel patch that works for kernels 2.6.19 and above, but not with 2.6.14, which is the kernel in the distro that I am using.

Why not using a newer kernel?

I have attempted to ask some questions on the bluez developer email list on sourceforge, but I only got one response saying that the snd-bt-sco solution is more mature than the plugz development effort. I then asked about the kernel oops and have not got any response.

Well, there are a few things behind the scene:

- ALSA developers have no BT hardware, thus there is no development in this area - snd-bt-sco is a wrong implementation it just creates a bridge to a user daemon - 2.6.14 kernel is too old for debugging and no worth unless someone gets a support contract

What is the state of bluetooth audio development? Is it slacking off?

Perhaps is the a plugz email list that I don't know about?

How about bluez list?

Takashi