[pulseaudio-discuss] Help needed configuring Bluetooth speaker with system mode

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Sat, 2015-05-30 at 11:38 +0200, Georg Chini wrote:
> On 30.05.2015 00:47, Northern Lights Info wrote:
> > Thanks for the response.  If it’s a kernel module issue, which module 
> > is needed?  I haven’t seen any reference to kernel modules on this 
> > subject.
> >
> >     Do you have the required kernel modules installed? "Protocol not
> >     available" sounds like
> >     a kernel message. Modules can be found under networking in the
> >     kernel configuration.
> >
> > Okay, I suppose this makes sense
> >
> >
> >     You don't need to load module-bluez5-device directly.
> >     module-bluetooth-discover is the only
> >     module you need to load. module-bluetooth-discover loads then
> >     module-bluez4-discover or
> >     module-bluez5-discover depending on your bluez version and that
> >     module automatically loads
> >     module-bluez4-device or module-bluez5-device as soon as a
> >     bluetooth device turns up.
> >
> >
> > As to your follow-up of whether or not things work when not logged in 
> > as root, well, I can’t tell because if I create a user and log into 
> > it, while PulseAudio launches fine, when I try to run bluetoothctl, I 
> > get its prompt but then it’s dead in the water and doesn’t respond to 
> > me typing.  Before I learned of the system mode option, I tried 
> > pulseaudio —start –D when logged in as root.  If I quickly run the 
> > bluetoothctl command sequence, I can connect to the speaker and then 
> > do pacmd list-sinks and see it.  I just doesn’t do the same thing in 
> > system mode. I get that error.  I did try copying my default.pa to 
> > system.pa but that didn’t help.
> >
> >
> Hi,
> 
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/WhatIsWrongWithSystemWide/
> 
> states: When in system mode, module loading after startup is disabled 
> for security reasons, which means: no hotplug handling in system mode

The wiki page is wrong about that. Module loading isn't disabled in the
system mode. There is a warning, though, that recommends disabling
module loading for security reasons, but if you ignore the warning and
keep module loading enabled, bluetooth can be used just fine.

-- 
Tanu