Bluez issue on an ARM based processor

[Rafael Seste <rseste@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

Has anybody tried to use Bluez on an __ARM__ based computer?

I'm trying to use HSP and HFP on a SheevaPlug developed by Marvell,
but the audio is very choppy.

I installed the new kernel 2.6.30-rc8 and bluez 4.41
#uname -a
Linux debian 2.6.30-rc8 #3 PREEMPT Thu Jun 4 16:36:21 BRT 2009
armv5tel GNU/Linux

I tested with a Motorola MotoROKR U9 bluetooth headset. I played a wav
file using aplay and then recorded my voice using arecord. On both
cases I got a choppy audio.

I tested with 3 different dongles two from Cambridge Silicon Radio and
one from Integrated System Solution Corp, in all cases I had the same
result. (choppy audio)
I tested the same setup on a x86 and it works perfectly.

here is the description of one of then,

~# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd
Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)

~# hciconfig -a
hci0:   Type: USB
       BD Address: 00:10:60:30:1A:2D ACL MTU: 384:8 SCO MTU: 64:8
       UP RUNNING PSCAN
       RX bytes:241992 acl:145 sco:3608 events:486 errors:148
       TX bytes:170455 acl:157 sco:3291 commands:235 errors:31
       Features: 0xff 0xff 0x8f 0xfe 0x9b 0xf9 0x00 0x80
       Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3
       Link policy: RSWITCH HOLD SNIFF PARK
       Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT
       Name: 'Sheeva01'
       Class: 0x4a0204
       Service Classes: Networking, Capturing, Telephony
       Device Class: Phone, Cellular
       HCI Ver: 2.0 (0x3) HCI Rev: 0x7a6 LMP Ver: 2.0 (0x3) LMP Subver: 0x7a6
       Manufacturer: Cambridge Silicon Radio (10)

One thing that I noticed is that the class is different from the one
configured in main.conf

# Default device class. Only the major and minor device class bits are
# considered.
Class = 0x100204

~# hciconfig hci0 revision
hci0:   Type: USB
       BD Address: 00:10:60:30:1A:2D ACL MTU: 384:8 SCO MTU: 64:8
       HCI 19.2
       Chip version: BlueCore4-ROM
       Max key size: 128 bit
       SCO mapping:  HCI

when I plugged the dongle I got the the following error on syslog
usb 1-1: device descriptor read/64, error -71

I attached a dump file made with hcidump when I was playing a .wav
The output shows a lot of malformed packets and packets with wrong
length (different from 48 bytes).

when I tried to record my voice, I had similar problems, except that
the syslog was flood by the messages below.

Jun  9 12:37:54 debian kernel: hci_scodata_packet: hci0 SCO packet for
unknown connection handle 45309
Jun  9 12:37:54 debian kernel: hci_scodata_packet: hci0 SCO packet for
unknown connection handle 65360
Jun  9 12:37:54 debian kernel: btusb_isoc_complete: hci0 corrupted SCO packet
Jun  9 12:37:54 debian kernel: hci_scodata_packet: hci0 SCO packet for
unknown connection handle 119
Jun  9 12:37:54 debian kernel: hci_scodata_packet: hci0 SCO packet for
unknown connection handle 56834
Jun  9 12:37:54 debian kernel: hci_scodata_packet: hci0 SCO packet for
unknown connection handle 282
Jun  9 12:37:54 debian kernel: btusb_isoc_complete: hci0 corrupted SCO packet
Jun  9 12:37:54 debian kernel: hci_scodata_packet: hci0 SCO packet for
unknown connection handle 65133
Jun  9 12:37:54 debian kernel: hci_scodata_packet: hci0 SCO packet for
unknown connection handle 3072
Jun  9 12:37:54 debian kernel: hci_scodata_packet: hci0 SCO packet for
unknown connection handle 42241
Jun  9 12:37:54 debian kernel: hci_scodata_packet: hci0 SCO packet for
unknown connection handle 65236
Jun  9 12:37:54 debian kernel: hci_scodata_packet: hci0 SCO packet for
unknown connection handle 65528
Jun  9 12:37:55 debian kernel: hci_scodata_packet: hci0 SCO packet for
unknown connection handle 65294
Jun  9 12:37:55 debian kernel: hci_scodata_packet: hci0 SCO packet for
unknown connection handle 49665
Jun  9 12:37:55 debian kernel: hci_scodata_packet: hci0 SCO packet for
unknown connection handle 43521
Jun  9 12:37:55 debian kernel: hci_scodata_packet: hci0 SCO packet for
unknown connection handle 56577
Jun  9 12:37:55 debian kernel: hci_scodata_packet: hci0 SCO packet for
unknown connection handle 61
Jun  9 12:37:55 debian kernel: hci_scodata_packet: hci0 SCO packet for
unknown connection handle 41215


Has anybody similar problems? or somebody knows why this is happening
and how to solve?

Where can I start to find why this is happening??

tks

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Rafael S. Seste