[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Bluetooth headset - not really working?

[From: Timo Steuerwald]

Razvan Dragomirescu wrote:

>BTW, did anyone notice the following lines in the "dmesg" output on
>the 770 in the 51-13 firmware?
>
>[    4.037261] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.7
>[    4.041015] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
>[    4.046356] Bluetooth: SCO (Voice Link) ver 0.4
>[    4.051147] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
>[    4.056365] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.5
>[    4.060272] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
>[    4.065704] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
>[    4.070861] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.2
>[    4.076477] Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.1
>
>It mentions SCO. I'm not sure if that means anything or if this was
>present in the older versions of the firmware, I just thought it was
>interesting.
>
>Also, a few lines above the Bluetooth stuff, you can find:
>
>[    3.814697] Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version
>1.0.9rc2  (Thu Mar 24 10:33:39 2005 UTC).
>[    3.828033] usbcore: registered new driver snd-usb-audio
>[    3.833709] ALSA device list:
>[    3.836822]   #0: Dummy 1
>
>USB Audio?
>  
>
Hmmh, interesting... may be anyone out there who has a usb headset can 
check if it is possible to use it. BTW: The same output already appears 
on .45-8

>Anyway, I sort of get the feeling that Nokia is keeping so quiet about
>this mostly because this is something they want to release in the 2006
>firmware and they most probably don't want anyone "stealing their
>thunder" and releasing a fully-working VoIP package for the 770 before
>that. With Asterisk and chan_bluetooth ported to the device, the 770
>could become the ultimate VoIP phone.
>
>  
>
full ACK!

>Any clues yet from Nokia? :).
>
>  
>
I suppose: no!  :-(

Cheers,

Timo