[pulseaudio-discuss] Media Keys on Bluetooth headsets?

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 17:02 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> 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
> 
Thanks for the specifics. Somehow uinput doesn't get loaded by default,
so 'modprobe uinput' did the trick.