Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers

[Michael]

On Thursday, 5 May 2022 17:21:46 BST Jack wrote:
> I have a photive BT speaker that I've used successfully with plasma on
> my Artix laptop.  I can test later with my Gentoo desktop to confirm.  I
> don't remember if you use pulseaudio or not, but if so, I'd check
> pavucontrol to see if it also thinks that device is active and being
> used by whatever app is producing the sound, and also that the volume
> meter is showing any output.
>
> Probably not relevant to you, but I've recently solved a long-standing
> problem with audio (not just BT, also wired, but mostly with the mic)
> where my system monitor (gkrellm, and specifically its gkrellmss plugin)
> had grabbed the audio device, so although pavucontrol saw that the
> device existed, it couldn't actually do anything with it, and the volume
> meter didn't even show up.  Solved in the short term by just disabling
> that plugin.
>
> Jack
>
> On 5/5/22 11:22, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > Is there a knack to getting my plasma desktop to operate happily with my
> > new Bluetooth speakers? I can get a connection using the Bluetooth
> > control panel, and the sound device appears in the Audio control panel,
> > but testing either speaker produces no sound.
> >
> > The Gentoo wiki was helpful in getting everything I need (well, I thought
> > I
> > had), but still I seem to be missing one link in the chain.
> >
> > (I still have the old M-Audio speakers with their line-in, but so far I've
> > lost two motherboard sound chips and two USB dongles while using them, so
> > I
> > wanted to try something else.)

I've never had speakers blowing the audio chips driving them.  I would have 
thought they would be protected electrically from such events occurring.  
Anyway, more to the point, I had tried to configure a laptop to connect over 
bluetooth to an AVR, but I couldn't get it to work until I installed and used 
net-wireless/blueman.  You may want to give it a spin.