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 28ECA158090 for ; Sat, 7 May 2022 17:02:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 90C18E07F9; Sat, 7 May 2022 17:02:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01b.sbp.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01b.sbp.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.3]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3CDA6E07C5 for ; Sat, 7 May 2022 17:02:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=wstn.localnet) by smarthost01b.sbp.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nnNon-0000EI-Mc for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 07 May 2022 17:02:09 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth speakers Date: Sat, 07 May 2022 18:02:09 +0100 Message-ID: <5570651.DvuYhMxLoT@wstn> In-Reply-To: <11979211.O9o76ZdvQC@wstn> References: <5824946.lOV4Wx5bFT@wstn> <4493202.CvnuH1ECHv@lenovo.localdomain> <11979211.O9o76ZdvQC@wstn> 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-smarthost01b-IP: [82.69.80.10] Feedback-ID: 82.69.80.10 X-Archives-Salt: ff5d4d2f-4fbb-45b6-9aa8-2d9eaf082a82 X-Archives-Hash: 971ab69a9106f2c861f92784fb16d1ad On Friday, 6 May 2022 08:59:33 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > 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. No joy. I get the same result: "blueman.bluez.errors.DBusFailedError: br- connection-profile-unavailable" So far none of the remedies offered on the web have helped. What would help is some idea of how the whole BT system works, but the more I look the more complex it seems. -- Regards, Peter.