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?

  • Eugenia@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    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.