Hello, it’s my first time posting on this forum and I’m a newbie, please let me know if I don’t provide sufficient information or if the format is wrong.
I’m running XFCE 4.18.1 with Manjaro 6.1.41 on an old Macbook Pro mid-2012.
I have an Anker Soundcore speaker that’s been working on the same kernel and computer two days ago. I never had connection issues so far, but sound has always been lagging.
I had a nightmarish experience yesterday setting up my VPN, I changed the power adapter, fixed the macbook chime at reboot and installed drivers and linux61-headers for a BrosTrend dongle. I had wifi speed issues with Broadcom drivers, that’s why I tried a dongle. Wifi speed issues are fixed with the dongle and the VPN is set.
Since this morning, I have huge issues with the Anker speaker connection. It connects for a while and is lagging but a while after I run youtube on chrome or firefox, the device disconnects and I get a br-connection-busy error on Bluetooth Devices. I don’t have this issue on MacOS nor on my android cellphone.
So far:
- I tried changing channels for 2.4 GHz wifi
- I activated only the 5G
- I remove the dongle and connected vs USB tethering via my cellphone
Using only 5G (completely deactivated 2.4 GHz on the router) and usb tethering, I’m experiencing the same issue. After all that, I feel confident the issue doesn’t come from interference.
I then tried:
- Changing ControllerMode = bredr in /etc/bluetooth/main.conf
- I checked I was running only on PulseAudio
I’m trying a few solution provided on Arch Linux Bluetooth Headset page. bluetoothctl wasn’t installed, so I did. I’m trying to switch codecs but it’s failing:
$ pactl send-message /card/bluez_card.F4_4E_FD_E8_34_B9/bluez list-codecs
[{"name":"sbc","description":"SBC"},{"name":"sbc_xq_453","description":"SBC XQ 453kbps"},{"name":"sbc_xq_512","description":"SBC XQ 512kbps"},{"name":"sbc_xq_552","description":"SBC XQ 552kbps"}]
$ pactl send-message /card/bluez_card.F4_4E_FD_E8_34_B9/bluez switch-codec '"sbc"'
Send message failed: Invalid argument
I’m at a complete loss honestly. I quit trying switching codecs because I’m not even sure that’s the issue. I want to know if you have other solutions, if switching codecs could help or if buying a Bluetooth dongle would help.
Thank you so much!
inxi -v7azy:
System:
Kernel: 6.1.41-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.1.1
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1-x86_64
root=UUID=a74aba25-26c2-4c3d-8bf0-fddc1eefa4c9 rw quiet splash apparmor=1
security=apparmor resume=UUID=cefd70ea-3d31-4044-b9ca-daee73168500
udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm
v: 4.18.0 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Apple product: MacBookPro10,1 v: 1.0
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 v: Mac-C3EC7CD22292981F
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Apple model: Mac-C3EC7CD22292981F v: MacBookPro10,1
serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Apple v: 262.0.0.0.0 date: 06/10/2020
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 41.7 Wh (96.5%) condition: 43.2/92.2 Wh (46.9%)
volts: 11.8 min: 10.9 model: SMP bq20z451 type: Li-ion serial: N/A
status: full cycles: 1107
Memory:
System RAM: total: 8 GiB available: 7.67 GiB used: 4.22 GiB (55.0%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i7-3615QM bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Ivy Bridge
gen: core 3 level: v2 built: 2012-15 process: Intel 22nm family: 6
model-id: 0x3A (58) stepping: 9 microcode: 0x21
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB
L3: 6 MiB desc: 1x6 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2890 high: 3229 min/max: 1200/3300 scaling:
driver: intel_cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 3159 2: 3229 3: 3093
4: 1200 5: 3100 6: 3121 7: 3123 8: 3101 bogomips: 36735
Flags: acpi aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon avx bts clflush cmov
constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts ept
erms est f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht ibpb ibrs ida
lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae
pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts
rdrand rdtscp rep_good sep smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp
syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic
xsave xsaveopt xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT
vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
Type: retbleed status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
STIBP: conditional, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
Type: srbds status: Vulnerable: No microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics vendor: Apple driver: i915
v: kernel arch: Gen-7 process: Intel 22nm built: 2012-13 ports: active: none
empty: VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0166 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GK107M [GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition] vendor: Apple
driver: nouveau v: kernel non-free: series: 470.xx+
status: legacy-active (EOL~2023/24) arch: Kepler code: GKxxx
process: TSMC 28nm built: 2012-18 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8
link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: HDMI-A-1,eDP-2
empty: DP-1,DP-2 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0fd5 class-ID: 0300
temp: 70.0 C
Device-3: Apple FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in) driver: uvcvideo type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-1.1:3
chip-ID: 05ac:8510 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.8 with: Xwayland v: 23.1.2
compositor: xfwm v: 4.18.0 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: nouveau,crocus gpu: nouveau display-ID: :0.0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 4800x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1270x286mm (50.00x11.26")
s-diag: 1302mm (51.25") monitors: <missing: xrandr>
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 model: ES-27X3 built: 2022 res: 1920x1080 dpi: 82
gamma: 1.2 size: 598x336mm (23.54x13.23") diag: 686mm (27") ratio: 16:9
modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
Monitor-2: eDP-2 model: Apple Color LCD built: 2011 res: 2880x1800 dpi: 221
gamma: 1.2 size: 331x207mm (13.03x8.15") diag: 390mm (15.4") ratio: 16:10
modes: max: 2880x1800 min: 800x600
API: OpenGL Message: Unable to show GL data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0 chip-ID: 8086:1e20
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GK107 HDMI Audio vendor: Apple driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 link-max: gen: 3
speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0e1b class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.1.41-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.75 status: off tools: pw-cli
Server-3: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: active with: pulseaudio-alsa
type: plugin tools: pacat,pactl,pavucontrol
Network:
Device-1: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57786 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver: N/A pcie:
gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: N/A bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:16a3
class-ID: 0200
Device-2: Broadcom BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n vendor: Apple AirPort Extreme
driver: bcma-pci-bridge v: N/A modules: bcma pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 1 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:4331 class-ID: 0280
IF-ID-1: enp0s20u1u2 state: unknown speed: -1 duplex: half mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
IF-ID-2: tun0 state: unknown speed: 10 Mbps duplex: full mac: N/A
IP v4: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: global broadcast: <filter>
IF-ID-3: wlp4s0b1 state: down mac: <filter>
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Apple Bluetooth Host Controller driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 2-1.8.1.3:8
chip-ID: 05ac:8286 class-ID: fe01
Report: bt-adapter ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter>
Device-2: Samsung Galaxy series misc. (tethering mode) driver: rndis_host
v: kernel type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0
bus-ID: 3-1.2:3 chip-ID: 04e8:6863 class-ID: 0a00 serial: <filter>
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 233.76 GiB used: 25.45 GiB (10.9%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Apple model: SSD SM256E
size: 233.76 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 9A1Q scheme: GPT
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 199.52 GiB size: 195.33 GiB (97.90%)
used: 25.45 GiB (13.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 maj-min: 8:5 label: N/A
uuid: a74aba25-26c2-4c3d-8bf0-fddc1eefa4c9
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 1001 MiB size: 999 MiB (99.80%)
used: 300 KiB (0.0%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda6 maj-min: 8:6 label: N/A
uuid: F7CE-F547
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 9.65 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/sda4 maj-min: 8:4 label: N/A
uuid: cefd70ea-3d31-4044-b9ca-daee73168500
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 size: 200 MiB fs: vfat label: EFI
uuid: 70D6-1701
ID-2: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 size: 22.81 GiB fs: hfsplus label: STARBUST
uuid: bfeeeaca-cea7-341a-9068-c7c94686a352
ID-3: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 size: 619.9 MiB fs: hfsplus label: Recovery HD
uuid: 1b83e5d4-0389-31fd-bb6f-c56c4e269eab
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
class-ID: 0900
Hub-2: 1-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 8087:0024
class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-1.1:3 info: Apple FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in) type: video
driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1
mode: 2.0 power: 500mA chip-ID: 05ac:8510 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: full speed or root hub ports: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
class-ID: 0900
Hub-4: 2-1:2 info: Intel Integrated Rate Matching Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 8087:0024
class-ID: 0900
Hub-5: 2-1.8:3 info: Microchip (formerly SMSC) USB 2.0 Hub ports: 2
rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 power: 2mA
chip-ID: 0424:2512 class-ID: 0900
Hub-6: 2-1.8.1:4 info: Broadcom BCM2046B1 USB 2.0 Hub (part of BCM2046
Bluetooth) ports: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 1.1
power: 94mA chip-ID: 0a5c:4500 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 2-1.8.1.3:8 info: Apple Bluetooth Host Controller type: bluetooth
driver: btusb interfaces: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes: 1
mode: 1.1 chip-ID: 05ac:8286 class-ID: fe01
Device-2: 2-1.8.2:5 info: Apple Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
(MacBook Retina) type: keyboard,HID,mouse driver: apple,bcm5974,usbhid
interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 1.1
power: 40mA chip-ID: 05ac:0263 class-ID: 0301
Hub-7: 3-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
class-ID: 0900
Hub-8: 3-1:2 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.1
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 power: 100mA
chip-ID: 05e3:0610 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 3-1.2:3 info: Samsung Galaxy series misc. (tethering mode)
type: bluetooth,CDC-data driver: rndis_host interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 power: 500mA
chip-ID: 04e8:6863 class-ID: 0a00 serial: <filter>
Device-2: 3-1.3:4 info: Holtek USB Gaming Mouse type: mouse,keyboard
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s)
lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 04d9:a09e class-ID: 0300
Device-3: 3-1.4:5 info: Microdia USB DEVICE type: keyboard,mouse
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s)
lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 power: 100mA chip-ID: 0c45:8016 class-ID: 0301
Hub-9: 4-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 4 rev: 3.0
speed: 5 Gb/s (596.0 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
class-ID: 0900
Hub-10: 4-1:2 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 3.2
speed: 5 Gb/s (596.0 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 chip-ID: 05e3:0626
class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 86.0 C mobo: 53.0 C gpu: nouveau temp: 70.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 272 Uptime: 1h 18m wakeups: 3 Init: systemd v: 253
default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 13.1.1 clang: 15.0.7
Packages: 1211 pm: pacman pkgs: 1198 libs: 348 tools: pamac,yay pm: flatpak
pkgs: 0 pm: snap pkgs: 13 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: xfce4-terminal
inxi: 3.3.28