[ltp] Re: Best Wireless Headphone with Thinkpad and Linux?

[Jiang Qian]

> Ugh, good luck. I've given up on bluetooth stereo audio.
> 
> You have to have a transmitter that is capable of a2dp in order to get stereo
> audio. The ALSA project mentioned earlier in the thread kind of works, but is
> still not convenient or reliable to use.
> 
> So, the problem is that the companies are selling these transmitters only in
> proprietary pairs. I have the IOGEAR one, and it's terrible. The signal does
> not reach from my office desk to my kitchen sink, which is < 30ft through an
> open doorway. The headphones are horribly uncomfortable. The transmitter does
> not transmit stereo when plugged directly into the X40 headphone jack -- I have
> to plug it into a small extension cord they provide, and plug the cord into the
> jack.
> 
> I've actually written to the Bluetooth SIG about this next part. The
> transmitters (I've tried Logitech and IOGEAR) won't show up on any bluetooth
> scan. So you can't use a different pair of bluetooth headphones with them. I
> guess if you got bored you could try and brute-force guess the bluetooth ID of
> the transmitter, but who knows -- they might be using an actually passcode for
> pairing on top of that.
> 
> I still use the IOGEAR pair occasionally, but I would never buy them again.
I take this horror story to mean that I have slim chance of getting 
bluetooth stereo headphone to work under linux at all. Is that correct?  

Is there any other stereo wireless headphone(no bluetooth, some older 
tech) working under linux at all, such as thos 900MHz headphone?  Why is 
this so difficult? I don't even need to have long range, just a couple 
of feet between my head and my thinkpad.

I was really hoping I can get one less wire with my linux on T43 :(
Jiang
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