[arch-general] Upgrade of bluez breaks A2DP?

[C Anthony Risinger]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Denis A. Altoé Falqueto
<denisfalqueto at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:04 PM, C Anthony Risinger <anthony at xtfx.me> wrote:
>> On Jan 22, 2012 4:53 PM, "Karol Babioch" <karol at babioch.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> However I wanted to make sure whether anyone has experienced something
>>> similar after the upgrades? I couldn't find any bug reports so far about
>>> this, so is there anything I could have missed? Or am I the only one
>>> using a Bluetooth headset on a regular basis ;)?
>>
>> I have same issue with my Sony DR-BT50 headset ... I can conmect/etc just
>> fine, but pulse doesn't see a sound device.
>>
>> I restarted pulse (possibly another components too) and at one point I got
>> the headset to show in the device list, but still not the available
>> outputs.  Gnome/pulse settings dialog segfaulted a few times too ... so not
>> sure what's causing what ... but like you only A2DP is affected.
>
> For coincidence, I've had that too, but found the solution on
> bluetooth wiki page.
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bluetooth#My_device_is_paired_but_no_sound_is_played_from_it
> Basically, you should add
>
> Enable=Socket
>
> in General section of /etc/bluetooth/audio.conf.
>
> Hope that helps.

nice ... it did help, about as much as it possibly could have :-)

i hadn't gotten around to looking for a solution yet -- saved me the
trouble -- thanks for the tip!  much appreciated.

-- 

C Anthony