Hi, I too face the similar issue with Skype. Is there any workaround to sort this issue. contents of asoundrc: Headset used Planetronics:P590 pcm.bluetooth { type bluetooth device 00:19:7F:22:B7:8A profile "voice" } version of Bluez used:4.17 kernel:2.6.27 Snippet of the /var/log/messages Dec 9 14:34:07 training01 bluetoothd[15235]: Accepted new client connection on unix socket (fd=25) Dec 9 14:34:07 training01 bluetoothd[15235]: Audio API: received BT_GETCAPABILITIES_REQ Dec 9 14:34:07 training01 bluetoothd[15235]: Audio API: sending BT_GETCAPABILITIES_RSP Dec 9 14:34:07 training01 bluetoothd[15235]: Unix client disconnected (fd=25) Dec 9 14:34:07 training01 bluetoothd[15235]: Accepted new client connection on unix socket (fd=25) Dec 9 14:34:07 training01 bluetoothd[15235]: Audio API: received BT_GETCAPABILITIES_REQ Dec 9 14:34:07 training01 bluetoothd[15235]: Audio API: sending BT_GETCAPABILITIES_RSP Dec 9 14:34:07 training01 bluetoothd[15235]: Audio API: received BT_SETCONFIGURATION_REQ Dec 9 14:34:07 training01 bluetoothd[15235]: config sco - device = 00:19:7F:22:B7:8A access_mode = 2 Dec 9 14:34:07 training01 bluetoothd[15235]: State changed /org/bluez/hci0/dev_00_19_7F_22_B7_8A: HEADSET_STATE_CONNECTED -> HEADSET_STATE_PLAY_IN_PROGRESS Dec 9 14:34:47 training01 bluetoothd[15235]: connect(): Connection timed out (110) Dec 9 14:34:47 training01 bluetoothd[15235]: Unable to lock headset Dec 9 14:34:47 training01 bluetoothd[15235]: config failed Dec 9 14:34:47 training01 bluetoothd[15235]: Audio API: sending BT_SETCONFIGURATION_RSP Regards, Sreevani M On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > You basically already answer your question, if arecord -D JX10 -f > S16_LE | aplay -D JX10 -f S16_LE does work, twinkle should work too. > The problem seems to be that twinkle leaves the connection open and > attempt to acquire the lock again and again, this is probably a bad > use of alsa API by twinkle as snd_pcm_prepare should not be called > more than once. > > -- > Luiz Augusto von Dentz > Engenheiro de Computação > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html