[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#772717: bluez: A2DP cannot work immediately after boot.

[Stefan Nagy]

Even more interesting is an upstream gnome-bluetooth bug report [1].

As I understand it, the pulseaudio module module-bluetooth-discover [2]
is responsible for detecting available bluetooth audio devices using
BlueZ. GDM starts a pulseaudio process [3] before the user does and
module-bluetooth-discover in fact works - but for the GDM pulseaudio
process, not the one that gets started with X11.

I verified that by connecting my bluetooth speakers in GDM (I can
connect to the last used paired device with a button). After connecting
the speakers, GDM used them for audio output immediately.

When I comment out module-bluetooth-discover in /etc/pulse/default.pa
as described in Comment 1 in the upstream gnome-bluetooth bug report
[1] and then add it to /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11, the bluetooth
speakers get detected without any problems and are listed in gnome-
control-center audio settings.

So in my view this is no BlueZ bug. I think it would make sense to
reassign it to PulseAudio.



[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=749208
[2] https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/
User/Modules/#index35h3
[3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=805414