On Friday, 6 May 2022 08:59:33 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > 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.
No joy. I get the same result: "blueman.bluez.errors.DBusFailedError: br- connection-profile-unavailable" So far none of the remedies offered on the web have helped. What would help is some idea of how the whole BT system works, but the more I look the more complex it seems. -- Regards, Peter.

