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[Discuss] bluetooth headphones ubuntu 14.04 lts



FWIW comment #20 has a work around.  You have to kill pulseaudio and
then the bluetooth device with show up in sound settings.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1283003

Pretty lame but it's working.

Eric Chadbourne
http://nonprofit-crm.org/

On 07/01/2014 06:00 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm trying to get a set of philips shb4000 bluetooth headphones to work
> with my Ubuntu laptop but no luck.  They appear to pair but it's never
> listed in sound settings.  When I use blueman to sink audio it fails
> saying "connection failed: stream setup failed".
> 
> Google shows lots of people complaining about the same issue.  Anybody
> know how to get something like this working?  Clues welcome!
> 
> Thanks,
> 



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