Using Rock Band PS3 drum pad in Linux

[billb]

I have noticed that the Rock Band PS3 drum pads show up as a regular joystick controller on my system. And judging by the output of:

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cat /dev/input/js1

It appears to work fine (I get the expected gibberish when I hit the pads, drum pedal, etc).

So the next step would be to get some drum machine software working ... I have installed Hydrogen successfully but am having problems getting any audio (reports an error with alsa, jack audio server not installed, oss support not compiled, etc). Anyone got Hydrogen working on their PS3 Linux install?

I see a Windows-only project doing this already, but I haven't tried it:
http://andrewrudson.com/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1200733488

Also, from the drum machine software I've seen they typically don't accept joystick input -- it's either keyboard or midi. But I have seen applications that let you program keys for joystick buttons / axes (like qjoypad) or applications that turn joysticks into midi instruments ...

Anyone have any suggestions for this?

Thanks