[pulseaudio-discuss] Bluetooth Headset Problem with BlueZ-5.38 and Pulseaudio 8.0

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Sat, 2016-08-20 at 14:14 +0200, Georg Chini wrote:
> On 20.08.2016 13:40, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 2016-08-19 at 13:57 +0700, Hieu Le wrote:
> > > 
> > > I'm trying to get a SPK-ProHT Bluetooth speaker and headset working on an
> > > embedded Linux board but when I failed to use pacmd set-card-profile to
> > > choose headset_head_unit profile. Checking pulseaudio lof file, it seems
> > > backend-native cannot connect to SCO socket. Sorry this is a very long mail
> > > due to debug logs attached
> > The problem seems to be that connect() fails with "Protocol not
> > supported". This problem has been reported a few times, but I don't
> > know how to fix it. It seems like missing functionality in the kernel,
> > so my guess is that you're missing some bluetooth related driver. If
> > you get it working somehow, please report back how you did it.
> > 
> > The bluez mailing list might be able to help better.
> > 
> Hi,
> 
> I remember there was a kernel problem which prevented some
> headsets from working. The bug was introduced in 3.12 and was
> fixed in 3.18.
> See also
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2015-March/023298.html

Thanks! I added this bit of information here:
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Bluetooth/

-- 
Tanu