I’m having an issue with a BT speaker, well Guitar amp. actually. (BOSS Katana Mini X)
Device is a Microsoft Surface Pro 7.
It connects, but it wont play any sound at all. I’m now at the point where I’m considering installing W11 on that Surface again just so I can connect it to my amp to play some guitar with backing tracks and whatnot. I hate using my phone for this.
- Speaker is chosen as the output device.
- Tried to switch to PipeWire
- Installed Blueman and a Pulse Audio interface
- Also tried this on Fedora 41(GNOME)
- Bluetooth earbuds from JBL works fine and get normal sound
- I have installed the kernel for Surface devices, but I also tested this BEFORE installing that and there has been no difference on both Ubuntu and Fedora.
What I notice is there’s only two configs I can chose from on the settings for the amp as an output device, instead of the long list I have on other devices. Possible cause?
On Ubuntu based distros I had to install a specific package from the ubuntu-studio distro, where it reconfigures pipewire to play right on 24.04. Without it, for example, I wouldn’t get audio on linux mint (based on 24.04), on some daw apps. Can’t remember how it was called, but search for ubuntu-studio packages, and something about pipewire fix.
That’s a good lead. I’ll try again tonight!
The speaker probably doesn’t advertise it’s capabilities properly.
Install
qasmixerorpavucontrol(both available in all distro repos) and see if you can find the right combo of selections to get sound on it.pavucontrol
I have that one already, I’m gonna try the other one real quick!
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Well if it doesn’t show as a valid output devices there’s your problem. You might want to start searching on how to use pipewire configs to force it into being a properly advertised output device.
It shows up as a normal output(if that’s what you mean)
The two configs I get for it are both A2DP Sink, but difference is SBC or SBC-XQ.
I dunno if that tells you anything
