Hey Greg.

On Thursday 01 November 2007, Greg Priest-Dorman wrote:
> > On Thursday 01 November 2007, Chris Knadle writes:
> >  ...  I dont know if Alsa OSS allows for simultaneous sound playing,
> > playing a sound lock the sound device as OSS would.
>
> Yep, aoss when directed to dmix is having no problem playing
> simultaneous sounds.  I found the directions on the alsa wiki refered
> to in my last post.

   Cool; I was hoping that was the case.  Thanks for the info.

> >    The docs for the bluez-utils package in /usr/share/doc/bluez-utils
> > might also give you and idea of where the PIN/passkey can be set.
>
> Well, I gave them another look, and this time noticed this comment
> in README.Debian.gz:
>
>    The old infrastructure /etc/bluetooth/passkey has been removed
>    since the agent is supposed to be started by a user session. It is
>    not meant to be system-wide.

   Ah hah.  But even though that's the case, the files that aren't used 
anymore are still around?  Agh.  Seems like this area of the BlueZ stack is 
volatile [and annoying].

> So, that is why that did not work, but a little later on it says:
>
>    Note to the tech-savy:
>    If you are stuck in console and absolutely need to pair with your
>    bluetooth device have a look at
>    /var/lib/bluetooth/<your_device_address>/pincodes. Please note that
>    this mode of operation is _not_ _supported_. Don't mess with files in
>    /var/lib/bluetooth/ unless you know what you are doing. I repeat:
>    manually adding a pincode for a remote device is NOT SUPPORTED.
>
> Well, sounded like an invitation to me...

   Yep!  Good find; thank goodness somebody documented this.

> I created a file called "pincodes" with one line in it,
> the address of my bluetooth device and the pin.  That worked!

   Excellent.

> So, not supported, will probably stop working with the next release,
> but for now that issue is solved.  Back to ttsynth.

   Exactly -- you can expect it to break, but at least it works for now.  
Hopefully after whatever way this changes there will be a new method to 
supply the pincode/passkey/pin without the GUI.  Or, failing that, perhaps 
they could at least agree on a naming convention so that the documetation can 
be grepped.  Geez.

> Thanks for your help,

   :-)  Cheers and good luck.

   -- Chris

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