[Discuss-gnuradio] Re: [dttsp-linux] dttsp-ps3

[Robert McGwier]

Both dttsp and gnuradio build on the PS3.  I managed to get everything 
to install.  As I have always found with redhat/fedora installations,  
what is absolutely seamless and without peer in Ubuntu is a royal pain 
in the derriere with Fedora.  I had to add all of the PYTHONPATH, etc. 
as usual and I had to roust about on the internet for ppc rpm's to 
install wxGTK and wxPython since I was absolutely determined not to have 
to build them.

The audio system on the PS3 with Fedora and Alsa is a little odd.  I am 
unable to address /dev/dsp in any meaningful way.   Portaudio correctly 
calls the devices (running pa_devs) but all of the examples fail in 
gnuradio-example/python/audio.  I modified several to attempt portaudio 
and that failed.

Make check failed in many places with a segmentation fault in run_tests.sh

The build is slow because of the small memory so it would be nice to be 
able to push off the component build to a remoted machine.

I will attempt to hook up my Extigy (USB) to see if that gives any joy 
tomorrow.

I went from new toy to Fedora core 5 compiling jack,  dttsp, and 
gnuradio in a week.  We can do business with this.  They are available 
in numbers (at $599) at my local target and walmart.

Bob



Frank Brickle wrote:
> You're building gnuradio right now?
>
>   
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