Thanks for the response. If it¹s a kernel module issue, which module is needed? I haven¹t seen any reference to kernel modules on this subject. > Do you have the required kernel modules installed? "Protocol not available" > sounds like > a kernel message. Modules can be found under networking in the kernel > configuration. > Okay, I suppose this makes sense > > You don't need to load module-bluez5-device directly. > module-bluetooth-discover is the only > module you need to load. module-bluetooth-discover loads then > module-bluez4-discover or > module-bluez5-discover depending on your bluez version and that module > automatically loads > module-bluez4-device or module-bluez5-device as soon as a bluetooth device > turns up. > As to your follow-up of whether or not things work when not logged in as root, well, I can¹t tell because if I create a user and log into it, while PulseAudio launches fine, when I try to run bluetoothctl, I get its prompt but then it¹s dead in the water and doesn¹t respond to me typing. Before I learned of the system mode option, I tried pulseaudio Â?start ÂD when logged in as root. If I quickly run the bluetoothctl command sequence, I can connect to the speaker and then do pacmd list-sinks and see it. I just doesn¹t do the same thing in system mode. I get that error. I did try copying my default.pa to system.pa but that didn¹t help. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20150529/9d1ff5a5/attachment.html>
