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kilior

Member

Registered: 2010-08-06

Posts: 13

I have problem with bluetooth headset.

My bluetooth headset does not work well.

and google and wiki.archlinux do not give me a good answer.

so I come here, ask you.

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bluez gnome-bluetooth and other packages related to bluetooth are installed.

and gnome-bluetooth can find and connect to my bluetooth headset in mode A2DP.

but when I open music player Rhythmbox, the sound goes to loudspeaker, not bluetooth.

i find it need .asoundrc to play via bluetooth, and "aplay -D btheadset xxx.wav" works well.

Rhythmbox still can't use bluetooth. I think some plugin may do this, but I can't find it.

and more funny, "mplayer -ao alsa:device=btheadset xxx.mp3" makes system die. Is that command right?

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Do i need install pulseaudio, if I want bluetooth headset is connected, and sound is switched automatically.

ngoonee

Forum Fellow

From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,362

Re: I have problem with bluetooth headset.

With the word 'automatically', yes you do need pulseaudio. I'm sure you could cook up some udev or related rule to do that in Alsa, but pulseaudio would be easier.

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