• Bug#1107273: bugs.debian.org: no sound from paired bluetooth speakers

    From oli@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 4 14:40:01 2025
    Package: bugs.debian.org
    Severity: normal
    X-Debbugs-Cc: dadaoizhud@proton.me

    Dear Maintainer,

    I bought new speakers (Edifier M60) so i can get rid of cables (and the audio jack is somehow broken).
    I am able to connect/pair them on my Debian trixie xfce install. But i have no sound. I was testing many hours (guess 8h or longer) to get that working, also with help of #debian-next in OFTC.
    There is no menu to select them in pavucontrol or any other audio app.
    Also, blueman-manager does not show any audio profile to select.

    I tested Fedora 42 XFCE to test if its a problem with XFCE. That instantly worked.
    So i tested Debian trixie live XFCE (to be sure i did not mess anything up). I noticed there is a lot missing to be able to connect bluetooth speakers.
    I installed blueman and libspa and was able to connect, but again: no sound.
    So i tested Debian 12 cinnamon and Debian 13 Gnome, on both it worked out of the box.

    After many hours, i found a really wierd behaviour: when i plugin the usb cable for the speakers, then switch on the speakers to bluetooth and then connect my workstation via bluetooth, it works.
    I can do that, but my mother can't. I was thinking about to switch to debian cinnamon, because there it worked out of the box. But i would love to stay with xfce.

    Thats my first bug report. I have no idea what is useful or what i should attach.
    https://pastebin.com/tw0UX181 thats from a failed try (without using the usb cable).
    https://pastebin.com/V6tkvxk5 are the packages i have installed.

    Any help is very appreciated!

    Regards
    Oli

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