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.
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