[Pkg-pulseaudio-devel] Bug#546335: bluetooth: uses only headset profile

[arne anka]

Package: pulseaudio
Version: 0.9.16-1
Severity: normal

i got a hbh-ds220 bt headset which is capable of a2dp as well.
it starts with pa being unable to detect my headset on its own, i always
have to use blueman to manually connect to headset/a2dp profile.

next, sound is crackling like in an old fm receiver or with an very
often heard record. i did not experience that with only alsa.

it somehow occured to me that the poor quality of sound might be related
to pa using the wrong profile, headset instead of a2dp.
thus, in blueman i disconnected from "headset", leaving only "a2dp"
active -- sound was gone and did not come back.
once i reconnected headset, sound was back.

additionally: only with "headset" connected, pa does pick up the bt at
all, with only "a2dp", the headset never appears in the lits of sinks.

for the detection of the headset at all, i am not sure how much is to
blame on pa -- but for the wrongly used profile, pa is imo the sole
culprit.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30.5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages pulseaudio depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.110        add and remove users and groups
ii  consolekit                  0.3.0-4      framework for defining and trackin
ii  libasound2                  1.0.20-4     shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libasyncns0                 0.3-1        Asyncronous name service query lib
ii  libc6                       2.9-26       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap2                     1:2.16-5     support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.2.16-2     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libflac8                    1.2.1-2+b1   Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtim
ii  libgdbm3                    1.8.3-6      GNU dbm database routines (runtime
ii  libhal1                     0.5.13-3     Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libice6                     2:1.0.5-1    X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libltdl7                    2.2.6a-4     A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii  libogg0                     1.1.4~dfsg-1 Ogg bitstream library
ii  libpulse0                   0.9.16-1     PulseAudio client libraries
ii  libsamplerate0              0.1.7-2      audio rate conversion library
ii  libsm6                      2:1.1.1-1    X11 Session Management library
ii  libsndfile1                 1.0.20-1+b1  Library for reading/writing audio 
ii  libspeexdsp1                1.2~rc1-1    The Speex extended runtime library
ii  libvorbis0a                 1.2.0.dfsg-6 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libvorbisenc2               1.2.0.dfsg-6 The Vorbis General Audio Compressi
ii  libwrap0                    7.6.q-18     Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.2.2-1    X11 client-side library
ii  libxtst6                    2:1.0.3-1    X11 Testing -- Resource extension 
ii  lsb-base                    3.2-23       Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

Versions of packages pulseaudio recommends:
ii  gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio      0.10.16-1  GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
ii  libasound2-plugins            1.0.20-1   ALSA library additional plugins
ii  pulseaudio-esound-compat      0.9.16-1   PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer
ii  pulseaudio-module-hal         0.9.16-1   HAL device detection module for Pu
ii  pulseaudio-module-x11         0.9.16-1   X11 module for PulseAudio sound se

Versions of packages pulseaudio suggests:
ii  paman                         0.9.4-1    PulseAudio Manager
ii  paprefs                       0.9.8-1    PulseAudio Preferences
ii  pavucontrol                   0.9.8-1    PulseAudio Volume Control
ii  pavumeter                     0.9.3-1    PulseAudio Volume Meter
ii  pulseaudio-utils              0.9.16-1   Command line tools for the PulseAu

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