On Thursday, 5 May 2022 21:37:12 BST Michael wrote: > I've never had speakers blowing the audio chips driving them. I would have > thought they would be protected electrically from such events occurring.
The sound chips have failed on both my workstations' motherboards over the last five years or so. They only seem to last a couple of years. Each time I've plugged in a USB dongle instead, and both of those have now failed. Or perhaps it's the speakers and their amplifiers. > 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. I will. Thank you. And Jack too. -- Regards, Peter.

