On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:55:42 -0500 John <[email protected]> wrote: > I have used pulseaudio in the past, and it was horrible to install > and understand. But for a while, I had it working on some machine or > other, with Etch or Lenny (I think). Sinks, sources, wonderful. That > machine is long gone. > > I recently installed Squeeze/KDE 4.45, and I wanted to use a bluetooth > headset. My Googling led me to believe that it CAN NOT be done > without pulseaudio. So I spent hours on getting pulseaudio working, > sometimes, except when it doesn't, and kaffeine freezes, or youtube > goes silent. If it's not working right, just reboot and it might work > differently for a few minutes. And, like all linuxers, I hate > rebooting. > > I haven't even tried adding the headset yet, because pulseaudio isn't > working, not really. What I really want to do is rip out all the > pulseaudio stuff and go back to straight ALSA or whatever it was that > was working so well before. > > So my FIRST QUESTION, obviously: Is there ANY way to run Bluetooth > headsets through a USB dongle, without pulseaudio, on Squeeze/KDE4. I > figure if it's impossible, then choosing between using pulseaudio and > doing the impossible, I have to go with pulseaudio, but it's a close > call.
I wish I knew. I've wasted hours trying to get a bluetooth headset working, without success. Documentation is horrible, and everything you find is incomplete and / or outdated. Never really had the patience to install the whole pulseaudio shebang just to do something really simple that absolutely shouldn't require it. Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
