Re: bluez and a2dp sennheiser pcx310 headphones

[Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:57 AM, John Frankish <j-frankish@slb.com> wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-bluetooth-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-bluetooth-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Luiz Augusto von Dentz
> Sent: Monday, 08 February, 2010 11:55
> To: John Frankish
> Cc: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: bluez and a2dp sennheiser pcx310 headphones
>
> Hi John,
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> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:19 AM, John Frankish <j-frankish@slb.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Using the .asoundrc below with bluez-4.53, I've been able to play music to a pair of sennheiser pcx310 headphones without problems, but although the remote volume control on the headphones works, the track skip/fastforward/repeat does not.
>>
>> According to the headphones manual, the remote controls rely on an avrcp profile - is this something supported by bluez or is it something that should be supported by the audio source (or both)?
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> You probably need to load uinput module to make this to work, also you
> should probably try pulse audio which has a better integration with
> bluetooth headsets so you don't need to manually configure alsa it
> will do all this automatically for you.
>
> Thanks - I'm stuck with alsa for the moment, what is the uinput module and where do I find it?

uinput kernel module, you can load it manually by doing: sudo modprobe
uinput (if you don't have then you need to enable it and recompile
your kernel)

PS: Before come back with such questions you better do a search/google
for it so you don't flood the mailing list with inconvenient
questions.

-- 
Luiz Augusto von Dentz
Computer Engineer