[pulseaudio-discuss] Media Keys on Bluetooth headsets?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 29.12.09 07:24, Ng Oon-Ee (ngoonee at gmail.com) wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 16:09 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > On Mon, 28.12.09 08:08, Ng Oon-Ee (ngoonee at gmail.com) wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi, I've been using my Jabra Halo stereo (A2DP) headset with pulse and
> > > gnome-bluetooth for several months now, works great.
> > > 
> > > A question though, does pulseaudio or gnome-bluetooth (not sure who'd be
> > > responsible for this) support the media keys (next track, previous
> > > track) on my headset, or on any bluetooth headset? I'd assume these keys
> > > are standard across headsets, since they all work on the same devices
> > > (bluetooth mp3 or cellphones etc.)
> > 
> > bluetoothd forwards AVRCP key events to user applications by creating
> > a virtual input device (uinput) for it in the kernel. Applications
> > that handle /dev/input devices properly (such as X) should be able to
> > make use of it without any modification.
> 
> I don't have any other /dev/input/by-id/* device created when connecting
> my headset. That would probably be the root of my issues. Perhaps I
> forgot a kernel compile option.... I believe this is OT for this list
> however? Who should I contact on this?

a stock kernel should have everything that is necessary.

you need uinput enabled in the kernel.

the bluez folks should be able to help you.

Lennart

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