[mdlug] Bluetooth on Xubuntu

[Robert Jim Fulner]

OK,

So I've migrated recently from Mandriva to Xubuntu. In some ways I've been
impressed how many things have "just worked" and didn't need any
configuration, vs Mandriva. However, one of these is not Bluetooth.

I have a Parrot Bluetooth dongle, which on my XP machine I can do anything
via Bluetooth that I can think of doing.

I've tried to install everything available from apt-get that has to do with
Bluetooth that didn't require KDE libraries and I'm still not getting any
luck with the PC even recognizing that I have the dongle plugged in. At
least not that I can tell.

Ideally I'd like to get this configured so that it could do everything I
could do on Mandraiva, like sync my BlackBerry phone book wireless, transfer
photos wirelessly to my Parrot Photo Viewer, & transfer files like MP3s to
my wife's PocketPC.

Though the feature I'd most like to take advantage of, that I never did get
working on Mandravia, not that I ever tried to much, is to configure A2DP,
or stereo Bluetooth. So that I could stream audio (music or podcasts) to a
wireless sound box "Parrot Party" and stereo Bluetooth headset "Motorola S9"