From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8D791158003 for ; Fri, 6 May 2022 07:59:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CEBAFE08ED; Fri, 6 May 2022 07:59:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01c.ixn.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01c.ixn.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.22]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 33AFCE08C8 for ; Fri, 6 May 2022 07:59:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=wstn.localnet) by smarthost01c.ixn.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nmss9-0002Dv-PV for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 May 2022 07:59:33 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 08:59:33 +0100 Message-ID: <11979211.O9o76ZdvQC@wstn> In-Reply-To: <4493202.CvnuH1ECHv@lenovo.localdomain> References: <5824946.lOV4Wx5bFT@wstn> <35d60779-39d7-5747-9317-6a1279a64640@users.sourceforge.net> <4493202.CvnuH1ECHv@lenovo.localdomain> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost01c-IP: [82.69.80.10] Feedback-ID: 82.69.80.10 X-Archives-Salt: 143a385b-0523-46c3-9bed-1746afc73f71 X-Archives-Hash: 9afc63905f899ab8f7d1a4226779750f On Thursday, 5 May 2022 21:37:12 BST Michael wrote: > I've never had speakers blowing the audio chips driving them. I would have > thought they would be protected electrically from such events occurring. The sound chips have failed on both my workstations' motherboards over the last five years or so. They only seem to last a couple of years. Each time I've plugged in a USB dongle instead, and both of those have now failed. Or perhaps it's the speakers and their amplifiers. > Anyway, more to the point, I had tried to configure a laptop to connect over > bluetooth to an AVR, but I couldn't get it to work until I installed and > used net-wireless/blueman. You may want to give it a spin. I will. Thank you. And Jack too. -- Regards, Peter.