gnome-sound-properties only sees hardware alsa devices

[Shaya Potter]

Gnome-sound-properties only lets you set your audio device to hardware ALSA devices. However, ALSA also supports software devices.

For instance, I'm using

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BluetoothAudio

to use my bluetooth headset from my laptop. With xmms, I'm able to explicitly select the a2dp alsa device (it doesn't list it, but lets me set it manually). However, gnome gives me no options for this.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Thanks for your bug report. Does 'lshal' mention that device?

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Thanks for reporting this bug! Unfortunately your report lacks information we would need to investigate the problem further. We are now going to close the bug - please reopen if you have more information at hand.

[Shaya Potter (spotter)]

Never got the notification of your question. But, no, it's not listed there as its a total software device (i.e. it's only a daemon and some .asoundrc magic)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

What version of Ubuntu do you use?

[Shaya Potter (spotter)]

feisty.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you try if that's still an issue in hardy?

[Shaya Potter (spotter)]

Well. I'm running intrepid. I haven't managed to make things work with pulse audio, so hard to say. The applet doesn't enumerate them, but it perhaps would be set through pulse audio?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the pulseaudio use should not make a difference on what is listed, do you consider the issue fixed now?

[Shaya Potter (spotter)]

no. you can test it yourself

unless I set it up wrong, I modified my .asoundrc by adding

pcm.bluetooth {
    type bluetooth
    device 00:13:17:70:7E:F9
}

I can't select it via gnome, but it is (manually, its not enumerated)
selectable in apps like xmms (deprecated) and audacious via their alsa
configuration.

Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> the pulseaudio use should not make a difference on what is listed, do
> you consider the issue fixed now?
>

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you send the bug on bugzilla.gnome.org directly since you have the issue and can reply easily to their comments?

[Shaya Potter (spotter)]

done and linked here

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for sending the request upstream now