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From: James <jtp@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: bluetooth audio
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 06:05:06
Message-Id: AANLkTinOyp-gpkb6XoUpxY9+LwXS4sCJpBBrnmZfhLCy@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] bluetooth audio by James
1 Thoughts?
2
3 -james
4
5 On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:11 PM, James <jtp@×××××.com> wrote:
6 > All,
7 >
8 > Anyone have experience with a2dp + bluetooth? I've been Googling this
9 > for quite a while and have not really gotten lucky with setting this
10 > up.
11 >
12 > First off, I'm running xfce4 and find that most of the tools don't
13 > work very well with this window manager. For example, the Gentoo
14 > documentation is fairly specific to Gnome and KDE. Is Blueman the only
15 > non-Gnome and non-KDE tool that works well with xfce4?
16 >
17 > Also, the a2dp thing has me pulling my hair out. Is the *only* way to
18 > use a2dp with pulseaudio? Is there no way to simply redirect all audio
19 > to the bluetooth headset?
20 >
21 > Anyone who can toss some experience in my direction would be greatly
22 > appreciated.
23 >
24 > Thanks!
25 > -james
26 >