[mdlug] Bluetooth on Xubuntu

[Ron Blanchett]

Some of the bluetooth packages conflict.
Uninstall them all and then just install the bluez packages, these are the
recommended packages that actually work.

There are also some instructions in the (K,X)ubuntu wiki that should help
with your endevor.

wiki.ubuntu.com search for bluez and/or bluetooth.

-Ron

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Robert Jim Fulner <fulner at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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"
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