After having read quite a number of posts here at askubuntu.com and elsewhere I'm still without sound working my bluetooth speakers.
Here's my setup: I got a Lenovo Thinkpad X220 with a Bluetooth daughter card of unknown specifications:
user@tp220:~$ lsusb
[...]
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0a5c:217f Broadcom Corp. BCM2045B (BDC-2.1)
[...]
Otherwise the chipset is an Intel Mobile QM67 Express Chipset:
user@tp220:~$ lsmod | grep intel
intel_rapl 18783 0
intel_powerclamp 18823 0
kvm_intel 143590 0
kvm 452043 1 kvm_intel
ghash_clmulni_intel 13230 0
snd_hda_intel 30428 6
snd_hda_controller 31056 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_hda_codec 139682 5 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller
snd_pcm 104112 4 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller
aesni_intel 152552 1
aes_x86_64 17131 1 aesni_intel
lrw 13286 1 aesni_intel
glue_helper 13990 1 aesni_intel
ablk_helper 13597 1 aesni_intel
cryptd 20359 3 ghash_clmulni_intel,aesni_intel,ablk_helper
snd 79468 24 snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,thinkpad_acpi,snd_seq_device
I think I got all the relevant packages installed:
user@tp220:~$ LANG=C dpkg -l *blue*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=====================================-=======================-=======================-===============================================================================
ii bluedevil 2.0~rc1really1.3.2-0ubu amd64 KDE Bluetooth stack
ii blueman 1.23-git201403102151-1u amd64 Graphical bluetooth manager
ii bluetooth 4.101-0ubuntu13 all Bluetooth support
ii bluewho 0.1-1 all notifies new discovered bluetooth devices
ii bluez 4.101-0ubuntu13 amd64 Bluetooth tools and daemons
ii bluez-alsa:amd64 4.101-0ubuntu13 amd64 Bluetooth ALSA support
un bluez-audio <none> <none> (no description available)
ii bluez-btsco 1:0.50-0ubuntu4 amd64 Bluez Bluetooth SCO tool
ii bluez-compat 4.101-0ubuntu13 amd64 BlueZ 3.x compatibility binaries
ii bluez-cups 4.101-0ubuntu13 amd64 Bluetooth printer driver for CUPS
ii bluez-gstreamer 4.101-0ubuntu13 amd64 Bluetooth GStreamer support
un bluez-hcidump <none> <none> (no description available)
un bluez-input <none> <none> (no description available)
un bluez-network <none> <none> (no description available)
un bluez-serial <none> <none> (no description available)
ii bluez-utils 4.101-0ubuntu13 all Transitional package
un kdebluetooth <none> <none> (no description available)
ii libbluedevil1:amd64 2.0~rc1really1.9.4-0ubu amd64 Qt wrapper for bluez
ii libbluetooth3:amd64 4.101-0ubuntu13 amd64 Library to use the BlueZ Linux Bluetooth stack
ii pulseaudio-module-bluetooth 1:4.0-0ubuntu11 amd64 Bluetooth module for PulseAudio sound server
un python-bluetooth <none> <none> (no description available)
ii python-bluez 0.18-2 amd64 Python wrappers around BlueZ for rapid bluetooth development
un python2.7-bluez <none> <none> (no description available)
Additionally I installed phonon-backend-vlc after reading somewhere that VLC might be the way to go - to no avail :-/
KDE Bluetooth system successfully bonds to my JBL Charge speakers, I get a message that the audio link (sink?) has been setup successfully. But - when I open systemsettings -> Multimedia -> Audio Hardware Setup I don't see the audio device, just the internal audio.
I happened to see it once, but then audio got stuck completely and it didn't even come back after reboot. I couldn't open Multimedia settings anymore and finally had to
rm .kde/share/config/phonondevicesrc
in order to get it back working (after another reboot).
