I have used pulseaudio in the past, and it was horrible to install and understand. But for a while, I had it working on some machine or other, with Etch or Lenny (I think). Sinks, sources, wonderful. That machine is long gone.
I recently installed Squeeze/KDE 4.45, and I wanted to use a bluetooth headset. My Googling led me to believe that it CAN NOT be done without pulseaudio. So I spent hours on getting pulseaudio working, sometimes, except when it doesn't, and kaffeine freezes, or youtube goes silent. If it's not working right, just reboot and it might work differently for a few minutes. And, like all linuxers, I hate rebooting. I haven't even tried adding the headset yet, because pulseaudio isn't working, not really. What I really want to do is rip out all the pulseaudio stuff and go back to straight ALSA or whatever it was that was working so well before. So my FIRST QUESTION, obviously: Is there ANY way to run Bluetooth headsets through a USB dongle, without pulseaudio, on Squeeze/KDE4. I figure if it's impossible, then choosing between using pulseaudio and doing the impossible, I have to go with pulseaudio, but it's a close call. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimaxnpsbabbmzqwiugxgnhftcxdsxfe6s7uc...@mail.gmail.com
