On Tue, September 11, 2007 1:04 pm, James G. Sack (jim) wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: >> On Tue, September 11, 2007 9:27 am, kelsey hudson wrote: >>> Mark Schoonover wrote: >>> >>>> Outlook not so good.... >>> The people who think Outlook is good typically wear M$ jockstraps :P >>> >>> All joking aside though, as long as you can pair the computer with the >>> headset (you should be able to) you will be provided with an interface >>> to its record and playback channels. Now, whether or not in Linux you >>> can actually send and receive meaningful data to these interfaces >>> remains to be seen; I've paired my headset with my laptop, but past the >>> "oooh, aaaah," I didn't investigate further. >>> >>> Good luck, and report back your results! >>> >>> -Kelsey >> >> I paired it successfully at that technical book store w/ Jim Sack using >> the CLI. But I forgot what I did and need to research it. The default >> Bluetooth driver is found by the ear piece, but the default program in >> the >> menus is looking for another dongle for file transfers. I need to change >> that. >> > > I deny blame. I only remember urging you to look at lsusb and dmesg for > clues. > > I also recall wondering what kind of simple test for BT might exist, > something similar to arecord/aplay maybe? By simple, I mean something > requiring a minimum tower of configuration stages, something other than > skype, say. > > Regards, > ..jim (got no bluetooth .. will black do?)
The good news: skype is working after an upgrade. The other news: attempts to yum arecord and its pals led to dependency aborts. I think I know the road forward. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
