using a bluetooth headset

using a bluetooth headset

[Pierre Frenkiel]

hi everybody,
I'm trying to use a Motorola bluetooth headset, and the only programs for
which it works are Skype and aplay.
The pairing worked perfectly with blueman-manager.
Skype uses the alsa config file .asoundrc, and aplay needs the
-D bluetooth flag.
Impossible to make it to work with any other program (vlc, rhytmbox,
xine, totem, ...)
I tried several tricks found in several forums, but none worked.
Had anybody a better result?
PS: My OS is Debian/Squeeze.

best regards,
-- 
Pierre Frenkiel

Re: using a bluetooth headset

[Lucas De Marchi]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Pierre Frenkiel
<pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi everybody,
> I'm trying to use a Motorola bluetooth headset, and the only programs for
> which it works are Skype and aplay.
> The pairing worked perfectly with blueman-manager.
> Skype uses the alsa config file .asoundrc, and aplay needs the
> -D bluetooth flag.
> Impossible to make it to work with any other program (vlc, rhytmbox,
> xine, totem, ...)
> I tried several tricks found in several forums, but none worked.
> Had anybody a better result?
> PS: My OS is Debian/Squeeze.

If you use pulseaudio, it should work out of the box.


Lucas De Marchi

Re: using a bluetooth headset

[Pierre Frenkiel]

On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Lucas De Marchi wrote:

> If you use pulseaudio, it should work out of the box.
   not really out of the box for me:
   I already tried with pulsaudio, without success.
   the command:
     pactl load-module module-alsa-sink device=btheadset
   gives
     Failure: Module initalization failed
   and all what I get after re-installing pulseaudio is that
   it no more works neither with skype nor aplay.

   Have you any doc about the exact config needed for pulseaudio to work?

-- 
Pierre Frenkiel