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PTKDev

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From: Rome

Registered: 2013-07-07

Posts: 4

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Bluez4+Gnome 3.8 Headphones Bluetooth No Audio

Hello (sorry for my bad english),
I'm struggling from 1 week with my bluetooth headphones because I can not in any way to make them work (I use gnome with openbox 3.8).

First I want to point out that gnome 3.8 uses bluez4 and in the respositories find:
bluez4 with libraries bluez-utilis & bluez-libs version 5.7 (it does not seem very consistent, since it should not be 100% compatible with bluez4 these libraries, is not it?)

Another fact is that after installing all the packages possible bluetooth / pulse / alsa:

alsa-firmware alsa-utils pulseaudio pavucontrol pulseaudio-alsa bluez-firmware bluez4 bluez-utils bluez-libs pavucontrol padevchooser  paman paprefs

And following this guide for pulseaudio suggested by wiki i have not solved the problem (on debian 7, however, this procedure works)

The same thing goes for alsa guide (but headset is detected after 10min from gnome-control-center).

Finally notice that the wiki bluetooth it is stated that the guidance is to be reviewed because there are conflicts between the procedures and bluez4 bluez5:

Reason: Several generations of various deprecated tools are mentioned. bluez4 and bluez are confused. This article needs cleanup from someone who knows what commands belong in which packages. 

I can not run my headphones beewii bbh100, in the past i had a configuration problem (missing Enable=Socket on confs) but not today solves the problem: audio.conf

Last edited by PTKDev (2013-07-07 17:34:37)

ishaanbahal

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From: India

Registered: 2013-07-11

Posts: 22

Re: Bluez4+Gnome 3.8 Headphones Bluetooth No Audio

I had the same problem in Ubuntu 13.04, Linux mint 15 and Arch and it turns out that it is a bug in the new pulse audio (version 3.x). If you can connect to your headphones and cannot switch to A2DP but  can stick to HSF then your problem is pretty much the same as mine.

Firstly remove the "Enable="  line from the audio.conf .
then try restarting your bluetooth adapter using

sudo systemctl restart bluetooth.service

Install BlueMan(optional, Gnome sound manager will work) and try connecting to your device. If the connection is made and you get connected to HSF somehow, then just try switching to A2DP.