bluetooth headset [05.05 updated !!!]

jhgz1 · Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:19 pm Post subject:

Just wanted to mention that the bluetooth device integrated in the new Macbook works flawlessly together with the two ebuilds. I don't know if they used the same adapter as in the Macbook Pro, so I can't make any promises for that one, but the Macbook works great.
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dmvianna · Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 6:39 am Post subject:

No luck trying to install against 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 and alsa-driver. The link for www.hotheads.de is dead. Any suggestions?

In /etc/make.conf:

fbcyborg · Advocate Joined: 16 Oct 2005 Posts: 3056 Location: ROMA

Hello all!

It seems my "USB" dongle bluetooth is supported... Notice that mine is an Integrated device. Anyway...
I have the following problem.
First of all I connect my headset with this command:

dreadhead · Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 3:14 pm Post subject:

Do you have enabled SCO Support in your kernel config?
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Hi,

yes I have:

dmvianna · Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 10:41 pm Post subject:

agnitio · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 136

I could not get btsco-0.41 to work at all. Modprobe completely froze when trying to insert the module.

I'm currently testing the cvs-version of btsco wich does not use a kernel module, instead it works only using an alsa plugin. All seems well and I get it to connect with my headset and the headset beeps as when it recieves an incomming connection, but then there's no sound at all.
I tried using mplayer and I get theese error messages:

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hi there,

agnitio · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 136

I have never seen those errors during my testing so perhaps it is a x64-issue, I don't own that kind of hardware so unfortunately I cannot confirm anything.

ALSO: I finally got my bluetooth headset working using the above .ebuilds (they are not really great but they do the job), the problems were twofold.

1) My headset was broken and I didn't even get audio when using it with my cell phone (I know, I should've tried this first, heh).

2) Mplayer with -ao alsa:device=headset does not work for me at all. But audacious, configured to use the headset device worked just fine! So all is well.

I'll see if I can get those ebuilds updated with better versions soon.

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Maxwell · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Posts: 97

Hi!

I'm a Gnome user and I'm trying to use my bluetooth headset (again). I had it working on my old laptop, but now I can't get it to work on my desktop.

My problem is (I think) pairing. At my first attempt I only had to pair my headset once. Now, my headset never connects to btsco (besides the first time I had it running, so it does work).

What software can I use to integrate bluetooth search and pairing in Gnome?
What is the stable version of bluetooth-alsa? The one provided by the ebuilds at first page or the ones at pkalin?

Thanks for the help!
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hemna · n00b Joined: 18 Nov 2003 Posts: 45

I'm trying to get ebuild bluetooth-alsa-utils-0.5.ebuild digest to work, but it fails.

I pulled the .ebuild files from the bug. bluetooth-alsa-kernel seems to digest just fine, but I get this....

Oleksandr Byelkin · n00b Joined: 11 Mar 2007 Posts: 1

As it was asked in http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_use_a_bluetooth_headset I report that Jabra V250 works with http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/dev/liquidx/net-wireless/btsco* overlays mentioned in the HOWTO and version 0.41 placed there at the moment.

And even more I got working it on ppc linux (Aluminium 15" 1.5GHz Powerbook). It need just manual fixing of the .ebuilds (btsco-kernel and btsco) to allow ppc architecture (maybe there is better way but sorry I am newby in the gentoo world).

Also bksco-kernel needed preparation of kernel modules but procedure was described in the error messages I got when tried emerge witout prepation.

I checked it with twinkle and it works much better then usual headphones (there is no clicks (caused by inperfect Internet connection as I think))
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dmvianna · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 11:20 pm Post subject:

Does anyone knows if in-kernel drivers (as of 2.6.20-gentoo-r4) bt-sco and bt-hciusb-sco are sufficient to make a headset work, and if so, how? :roll:

CONFIG_SND_USB_USX2Y seems to have disappeared from the kernel.

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dmvianna · Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 10:25 am Post subject:

OK, I ended up finding the right overlay, but now it does not compile under the 2.6.21 kernel. It is strange, because up to 2.6.20 it was working properly.

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WizNut · n00b Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 16 Location: Earth

I've followed the guide on the wiki, and now I'm having the same problem that dmvianna had when trying to emerge net-wireless/btsco-kernel.

From what I can see, I believe that the ebuild is looking in the .config file under /usr/src/linux in order to make sure that the prerequisite drivers are either compiled in or built as modules. In the case of alsa-driver the modules are built separately from the kernel and are in there own directory under /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/alsa-driver. The gentoo ALSA guide says to make sure that ALSA is not enabled in the kernel config when using the alsa-driver package. Because btsco-kernel only checks the .config file, it of course sees that the neccessary support isn't there (even though it is) and refuses to compile.

Anyways, just my $0.02

dmvianna · Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 12:42 pm Post subject:

Just look at the above link, there's a patch that solves the problem.

<kernel>/include/sound/typedefs.h was removed in kernel version 2.6.21, but btsco relies on that. The patch puts it back.
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WizNut · n00b Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 16 Location: Earth

I was building against a 2.6.20 kernel.

dmvianna · Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 1:15 pm Post subject:

Do you have

WizNut · n00b Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 16 Location: Earth

According to the howto on gentoo-wiki.com, you're expected to have used the alsa-driver method of getting alsa up and running. In order to do that the ALSA guide says that you can't use the builtin support for ALSA in the kernel. Otherwise, you get conflicts. So obviously, if I've used alsa-driver like the howto reccomended, neither of those is set.

dmvianna · Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 8:35 pm Post subject:

Ahh, you're using the new method. I've never tried it, it's not explained well in the wiki. Actually, I hate that wiki page, I had cleaned it up somewhat when I had problems with 2.6.21 and realised how confuse it was previously. The way I know it works is to use the in-kernel driver AS MODULES, and then apply the overlays from the wiki (btsco-0.41 and btsco-kernel-0.41). Then you also have to install the init script, I use this:

/etc/init.d/headset

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ReDirEct__ · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 1:18 pm Post subject:

hi all... i noticed that information in the first post are very old... i wolud to know if i need bloetooth-alsa for using the bluetooth headset mic with bluez 3.24... if not... how can get my mic headset working with bluez3.24??? Speaker work very well with mplayer (not with amarok).