I have a photive BT speaker that I've used successfully with plasma on
my Artix laptop. I can test later with my Gentoo desktop to confirm. I
don't remember if you use pulseaudio or not, but if so, I'd check
pavucontrol to see if it also thinks that device is active and being
used by whatever app is producing the sound, and also that the volume
meter is showing any output.
Probably not relevant to you, but I've recently solved a long-standing
problem with audio (not just BT, also wired, but mostly with the mic)
where my system monitor (gkrellm, and specifically its gkrellmss plugin)
had grabbed the audio device, so although pavucontrol saw that the
device existed, it couldn't actually do anything with it, and the volume
meter didn't even show up. Solved in the short term by just disabling
that plugin.
Jack
On 5/5/22 11:22, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Hello list,
Is there a knack to getting my plasma desktop to operate happily with my new
Bluetooth speakers? I can get a connection using the Bluetooth control panel,
and the sound device appears in the Audio control panel, but testing either
speaker produces no sound.
The Gentoo wiki was helpful in getting everything I need (well, I thought I
had), but still I seem to be missing one link in the chain.
(I still have the old M-Audio speakers with their line-in, but so far I've
lost two motherboard sound chips and two USB dongles while using them, so I
wanted to try something else.)
