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[trshemanske <thomas.r.shemanske@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

After several hours of googling and trying various suggested fixes, I
have my bluetooth speakers working and have some hints.  Hopefully
package maintainers et al can coax them into a more usable form

First and foremost I found the following two URLs of enormous help:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725846

http://askubuntu.com/questions/366032/pulseaudio-not-detecting-
bluetooth-headset-automatically

The real issue was that module-bluetooth-discover was not loading (and
still does not automatically)

Test by:
pactl list | grep -i module-bluetooth-discover

If empty load via
 pactl load-module module-bluetooth-discover

Pulse audio will then (hopefully) recognize the device

The rest is sketchier since I needed to do this the first time, but not
there after

First, pulse audio sees the device in the playback menu, normally where
you see something like "Built-in Audio Duplex ..."

But the first time I tried the instructions in the URL above for
associating the device with a2dp, they  did not work.  Instead, I went
in through the bluetooth widget, selected the device, selected audio
profile and then a2dp.

Then you could select the speakers from the pulse audio control panel

Have no idea how to get the pactl load-module to happen automatically,
except (of course) I will write a script :)

I hope this helps a few ...





** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #725846
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725846

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1199059

Title:
  A2DP audio sink devices failed to work with "bluetoothd : Unable to
  select SEP" in system log.

Status in “bluez” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  All my A2DP devices can't create a audio device properly...
  My 2 13.04 machines both have this issue(1 notebook, 2 bluetooth dongles)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: bluez 4.101-0ubuntu8b1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-21.32-generic 3.8.8
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-21-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Jul  9 01:01:38 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-26 (162 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130126)
  InterestingModules: rfcomm bnep btusb bluetooth
  MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-21-generic root=UUID=9bce9679-da3a-44fd-84ec-b16339a84004 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: bluez
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-03-01 (128 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 08/18/2010
  dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: 1101
  dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
  dmi.board.name: P7H55-M
  dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
  dmi.board.version: Rev X.0x
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
  dmi.chassis.type: 3
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
  dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1101:bd08/18/2010:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnP7H55-M:rvrRevX.0x:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
  dmi.product.name: System Product Name
  dmi.product.version: System Version
  dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer
  hciconfig:
   hci0:	Type: BR/EDR  Bus: USB
    BD Address: 00:15:83:54:59:9F  ACL MTU: 310:10  SCO MTU: 64:8
    UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN
    RX bytes:29508 acl:1270 sco:0 events:461 errors:0
    TX bytes:5249 acl:165 sco:0 commands:95 errors:0

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