Bluetooth audio problems

[EmmaX]

Hello everyone,

I ummediately installed MX on my 2008 32bit Laptop and it runs pretty well actually. But if I connect a Bluetooth audio output device I have to change the audio output manually.

Is there any solution to do it automatically (like on Android, Mint, Ubuntu and many other systems?)

Thanks a lot! ^^

[Eadwine Rose]

With all requests, as per forum rules (which, if you haven't, please read), please share your full Quick System Info, do not edit.
If need be, you can do this using the LiveUSB, thanks.

[EmmaX]

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System:
  Kernel: 6.10.11+bpo-686-pae arch: i686 bits: 32 compiler: N/A
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.10.11+bpo-686-pae root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash
    init=/lib/systemd/systemd resume=UUID=<filter> resume_offset=737280
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm v: 4.18.0 vt: 7
    dm: LightDM v: 1.26.0 Distro: MX-23.4_386 Libretto September 15  2024 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12
    (bookworm)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Pavilion dv5 Notebook PC v: F.0C
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: Quanta type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Quanta model: 3603 v: 02.20 serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: F.0C
    date: 09/18/2008
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 65.8 Wh (100.0%) condition: 65.8/88.8 Wh (74.1%) volts: 12.4 min: 14.8
    model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: full
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core2 Duo P7350 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Penryn built: 2008
    process: Intel 45nm family: 6 model-id: 0x17 (23) stepping: 6 microcode: 0x60F
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 smt: <unsupported> cache: L1: 128 KiB desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB
    L2: 3 MiB desc: 1x3 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1952 high: 1984 min/max: 800/2000 scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq
    governor: schedutil cores: 1: 1921 2: 1984 bogomips: 7979
  Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion
  Type: mds status: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT disabled
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
  Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass status: Vulnerable
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines; STIBP: disabled; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not
    affected; BHI: Not affected
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA G96CM [GeForce 9600M GT] vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: nouveau v: kernel
    non-free: series: 340.xx status: legacy (EOL) last: release: 340.108 kernel: 5.4 xorg: 1.20
    arch: Tesla process: 40-80nm built: 2006-13 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
    active: LVDS-1 empty: HDMI-A-1,VGA-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0649 class-ID: 0300
    temp: 84.0 C
  Device-2: Quanta HP Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 7-4:3 chip-ID: 0408:03ba
    class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 compositor: xfwm v: 4.18.0 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: nouveau gpu: nouveau display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1280x800 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 338x211mm (13.31x8.31") s-diag: 398mm (15.69")
  Monitor-1: LVDS-1 model: Seiko Epson 0x4e45 built: 2008 res: 1280x800 hz: 60 dpi: 98 gamma: 1.2
    size: 331x207mm (13.03x8.15") diag: 390mm (15.4") ratio: 16:10 modes: max: 1280x800 min: 640x350
  API: OpenGL v: 3.3 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: NV96 direct-render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801I HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:293e class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.10.11+bpo-686-pae status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
    2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
    tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Intel PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network driver: iwlwifi v: kernel modules: wl
    pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:4237 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 6000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
    chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: TP-Link UB500 Adapter type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 3-1:3 chip-ID: 2357:0604
    class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 3.0 lmp-v: 5.1
    sub-v: 8a6b hci-v: 5.1 rev: 9a9
  Info: acl-mtu: 1021:6 sco-mtu: 255:12 link-policy: rswitch hold sniff park
    link-mode: peripheral accept service-classes: rendering, capturing, object transfer, audio,
    telephony
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 298.09 GiB used: 21.09 GiB (7.1%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD3200BEVT-60ZCT1 size: 298.09 GiB
    block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 5400 serial: <filter>
    rev: 1A13 scheme: MBR
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 298.09 GiB size: 292.35 GiB (98.07%) used: 21.09 GiB (7.2%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 4.95 GiB used: 264 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 file: /swap/swap
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 73.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nouveau temp: 84.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
  Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 2810 libs: 1235 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,gnome-software,nala,synaptic
    pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
    1: deb http://mirror.plusserver.com/debian/debian/ bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
    1: deb http://mirror.plusserver.com/debian/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main
    3: deb http://mirror.plusserver.com/debian/debian bookworm-backports main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
    1: deb http://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/MX/Repo/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/steam-beta.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/steam-stable.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64,i386 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/steam.gpg] https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ stable steam
    2: deb-src [arch=amd64,i386 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/steam.gpg] https://repo.steampowered.com/steam/ stable steam
Info:
  Processes: 230 Uptime: 1h 7m wakeups: 2 Memory: 2.95 GiB used: 2.1 GiB (71.3%) Init: systemd
  v: 252 target: graphical (5) default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12
  Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: BIOS (legacy, CSM, MBR)

[Kermit the Frog]

Maybe this works.

[Eadwine Rose]

You know about this. Please post the solution, quote if need be. Don't just link.

[EmmaX]

With all requests, as per forum rules (which, if you haven't, please read), please share your full Quick System Info, do not edit.
If need be, you can do this using the LiveUSB, thanks.

Was that, what u`ve ment? ^^

[j2mcgreg]

With all requests, as per forum rules (which, if you haven't, please read), please share your full Quick System Info, do not edit.
If need be, you can do this using the LiveUSB, thanks.

Was that, what u`ve ment? ^^

In a more verbose form:
We need your computer’s complete profile before we can proceed, so you need to post the output from the QSI utility. The Quick System Info (QSI) utility is located in MX Tools and its output is automatically formatted for use here in the forum. Run the QSI utility, click “Copy for Forum” at the bottom and then just paste it here in your thread.
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[PeterO]

Hi EmmaX,
Unfortunately, Bluetooth is a weak area in MX. Other distributions may be better in this respect - most likely as those you mention (Ubuntu, Mint) as well as others - myself I have got better results with Manjaro. There might be ways around this, as such in the link from Kermit (but this may be a moving target).

If BT is essential for you, go for a distribution with a stable BT handling. Otherwise, MX is a very nice distro, with a very friendly forum which most often assist in solving issues.

[Eadwine Rose]

Where do you get the "bluetooth is a weak area on MX" thing?

Until I hear that from a dev, I would not hold too much value on that comment.