[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#503033: bluez-audio: Cannot adjust a2dp volume

[Filippo Giunchedi]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 09:45:41AM +1100, Peter Chubb wrote:
> I have a bluetooth Philips a2dp headset that I can play music to using, e.g., 
>   mplayer -ao alsa:device=bluetooth music.ogg
> 
> But there appears to be no way to adjust the volume of the audio.  
> The bluetooth device does not appear in /proc/asound/cards, so alsamixer 
> and friends don't see the bluetooth device.
> Mplayer's inbuilt volume control seems to do nothing either.
> 
> I can't find any info on the bluetooth wiki or in /usr/share/doc on how 
> to set up a daemon to listen to AVRP requests either, which is, I think, 
> why the volume buttons on the headset do nothing.

I seem to be able to adjust volume with current bluez 4, can you retry?

thanks,
filippo
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