Return-Path: From: John Frankish To: "linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org" Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 13:53:21 +0200 Subject: RE: How to use a2dp avrcp controls Message-ID: <6AC5A55546F64545AE996F8200E3AC4E032D544173@NL0105EXC01V01.eur.slb.com> References: <6AC5A55546F64545AE996F8200E3AC4E032D4EB9A2@NL0105EXC01V01.eur.slb.com> <44EE5C37ADC36343B0625A05DD408C4850DA702DD0@CHEXMB-01.global.atheros.com> In-Reply-To: <44EE5C37ADC36343B0625A05DD408C4850DA702DD0@CHEXMB-01.global.atheros.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-bluetooth-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > -----Original Message----- > From: Vikram Kandukuri [mailto:Vikram.Kandukuri@Atheros.com] > Sent: Tuesday, 04 May, 2010 15:00 > To: John Frankish > Subject: RE: How to use a2dp avrcp controls > > Hi John, > Hi, > > Although I can pair with and play music to a set of a2dp headphones > without problems, I cannot figure out how to enable the "track skip" > and similar remote controls on the headphones. > > Is this something that can be done easily - if so, could somebody point > me to the documentation? > > If not, are there music playing applications (rhythmbox or similar) > that already enable the remote controls on headphones? > > Note that I see appropriate echoes in dmesg when I press the "track > skip" button, so the message is getting from the headphones to my > laptop... > > Thanks > John > > >>uinput module is responsible for AVRCP ; so do modprobe to uinput. It > will >>work > > vikram ---- Sorry, I should have mentioned that, but the uinput module is loaded (I don't get the messages in dmesg without that), but the tracks do not skip in rhythmbox or xmms $ dmesg ... [press track skip] input: 00:1B:66:00:31:88 as /devices/virtual/input/input11 John