On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 01:06:23PM +1100, Peter Chubb wrote:
> Hi,
>       I've bought myself a bluetooth headset and am streaming audio
> to it using mplayer.  How do I control its volume?  Usually, hitting /
> or *  decreases or increases the volume, but mplayer thinks it's
> sending at 0% volume and it's still a little too loud!

have you tried changing the volume with alsamixer, mplayer only changes
1 volume control and it might not be the right one

> 
> The hardest part about making this thing to work at all, BTW, was getting
> it to peer.  If you don't use a gui desktop, you seem to be in
> trouble.  And most of the howtos aren't helpful -- they all assume you
> have the GTK libraries or have Gnome or something, or are so old that
> the codebase has moved on a lot.  The trick is to put the MAC/Pin pair
> into /var/lib/bluetooth/DONGLEMAC/pincodes where DONGLEMAC is the mac
> address of the bluetooth adapter.
> 
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