I am long-time Debian testing user which I use daily for both work and home. I am overall satisfied and happy and I welcome the possibility for up-to-date and "rolling" updates of system packages. I understand I can encounter some minor issues and things that don't work as expected for some time in testing branch. However, it's been for more than a half of an year that I have issues with Bluetooth connection to external speaker and other audio problems.
I have regular, several years old Dell Latitude laptop with amd64 architecture. I use default Debian Desktop environment - Gnome and I prefer Gnome graphical options to control connected devices like displays, Bluetooth, audio and other things that can be found in Gnome Settings and Tweaks (gnome-control-center and gnome-tweaks).
1. Bluetooth
When I try to connect to my external speaker via Bluetooth, it fails, and I can see this error message in syslog:
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bluetoothd[716]: src/service.c:btd_service_connect() a2dp-sink profile connect failed for FC:58:FA:CD:DF:72: Protocol not available
- viewtopic.php?f=7&t=151557&p=751189
- https://wiki.debian.org/BluetoothUser/a ... _available
- https://askubuntu.com/questions/1172000 ... ect-failed
- pulseaudio-module-bluetooth is already installed
- Load modules module-bluez5-discover and module-bluez5-device in /etc/pulse/default.pa.d/bluez5.pa does not effect this issue
2. HDMI
Another issue, that seems relevant, is that I am unable to choose HDMI device as an audio output. I connect an external monitor that includes speakers (such as a TV). HDMI video output works well, but there is no sound when I choose HDMI as an audio output. I see following lines in sysog when I change the audio output:
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gsd-media-keys[2203]: Unable to get default sink
gsd-media-keys[2203]: Unable to get default source
Audio works well when I use built-in audio speakers or analog headphones connected with 3.5 mm jack.
3. Other info
I noticed a comment in viewtopic.php?f=7&t=151557&p=751189#p751189, that
So I am wondering if PipeWire is somehow relevant to these issues? If I understand it well, PipeWire is optional in Debian bullseye (stable), as noted in https://wiki.debian.org/PipeWire. However, if I tried to uninstall PipeWire on Debian testing, apt plans to remove whole gnome package(s). So I didn't tried that, obviously.pipewire breaks the a2dp chain
Related installed packages:
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bluez 5.64-2
gnome 1:42+3
gnome-bluetooth 3.34.5-8
linux-image-amd64 5.17.3-1
pipewire:amd64 0.3.51-1
pulseaudio 15.0+dfsg1-4
pulseaudio-module-bluetooth 15.0+dfsg1-4
xorg 1:7.7+23
xwayland 2:22.1.0-1
4. Question
Any idea how to fix my audio issues in Debian testing?
PS: updates
Bluetooth issue is solved since 10/2022. HDMI sound issue is still present (both bookworm/stable and trixie/tesging).
Thanks