[pulseaudio-discuss] PulseAudio and Bluetooth

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Brian J. Murrell at 17/04/09 12:49 did gyre and gimble:
> On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 21:26 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> Heya!
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> So you want to get BT audio working with PA?
> 
> I'd be happy just to have BT audio working in any manner at all, but for
> over a year it's been a non-starting struggle.
> 
>> Then please make sure to
>> run the following minimal versions:
>>
>>     bluez 4.35
>>     pulseaudio 0.9.15 (final!)
>>     gnome-bluetooth 2.27.4
>>     kernel 2.6.29 with http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/devel/kernel/git-bluetooth.patch?revision=1.2 applied
> 
> Heh.  This seems to _always_ be the case for BT.  If I had a nickel for
> every time I heard/read "the next kernel release will solve that" (and
> of course, the corollary: "just add these patches to your kernel")...

Would you prefer if someone just said: "add secretfoo=xyf134jdah49d81238 
to your kernel command line and it'll just work... it's true, I read it 
on a cereal packet."???

Well you probably would, but come on! Do you honestly expect things to 
work all by themselves? A lot of people put in very hard work to get 
things to work, and all you can do is complain about how this hard work 
means you wont get it until someone else packages it up for you?

You have the ultimate choice. You can go for a commercial OS and ensure 
that vendor has support for what you want, or you can get your hands 
dirty and help the people doing the hard work to make it operate the way 
you want, or you can wait patiently until it all works. I personally 
take the second option.

All you're going to achieve by moaning is pissing off the people who do 
put in the hard work and who are the ones most able to help you when you 
get stuck. That's generally not a wise move!

Sure, everyone gets pissed of at the pace of development sometimes, and 
I know you acknowledged that it "wasn't [Lennart's] fault, but 
complaining about it solves nothing.

Col

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