Hi Folks, Not a very exciting answer. But the upshot of it all was that the latest version on the emacspeak driver for the ttsynth (outloud) text to speech software supports ALSA and the current version of ALSA Xubuntu 7.04 uses the mixer by default. Between the two, all is working.
I now have a script that I run when I bring up the headset that links in a .asoundrc file which specifies the default alsa device to be the mixer attached to the hardware device that is the bluetooth headset. When not using the headset I remove the link and the default device is the mixer attached to the primary hardware audio device. So far so good. I also found (as reported in a previous post) how to avoid giving the pin code each time I bring up the headset. I am having intermittent success with command line paring and I am still working on that aspect of the problem, but the alsa part is working very well now. The most helpfull site was without question the alsa wiki mentioned in my earlyer post, in addition I had found a page on the particular headset I had, here they both are: http://alsa.opensrc.org/ http://www.maven.pl/2006/04/27/jabra-but-500-bluetooth-headset-and-linux/w Thanks, -Greg -- Greg Priest-Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] (this space intentionally left blank) _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Oct 3 - Security and Privacy Nov 7 - Django Python Application Framework
