Bluetooth pulseaudio multiple device entries

[Colin Beckingham <colbec@start.ca>]

Good day: using Opensuse 12.3 with standard desktop kernel from repo, 
pulseaudio under Gnome.

Steps to reproduce:
1. clean boot of machine.
2. USB Bluetooth adapter Belkin which works reliably
3. Issue command as root "hciconfig 0 sspmode 0" - this is essential 
otherwise bluetooth device not recognized.
4. Open gnome sound settings from user menu; onboard sound device is 
present, only one entry
5. switch on bluetooth device Samsung WEP 475
6. device is recognized and paired, an entry appears in PA list
7. about 10 sec later a second entry for the same BT device appears in 
the list
8. after playing with the windows sometimes the second entry will go away
9. at least one of the entries will work and PA shows amplitude changes 
registering for the input device
10. sometimes clicking the wrong one will cause Gnome settings window to 
crash, but BT and PA are still running and device is working and gnome 
window can be opened again.

Clearly the multiple entries thing is not normal behaviour.
Might be a BT issue, or a PA issue, or a Gnome issue or other.
It's a tossup where where to start, can I rule out the BT side?

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Colin Beckingham
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