Hi again from Bluetooth noob-land. This may indicate my lack of Bluetooth experience, but I don’t think so.
I am using i12 Bluetooth headphones. In recent months, using the stable updates only, I am having audio dropout problems with playing videos, sometimes one or the other ear, or both ears.
I have tried kernels 5.12 and 5.10 LTS, same problems. Playing the video files over HDMI audio shows the problem is not with the videos themselves.
My info:
System:
Kernel: 5.12.1-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.12-x86_64
root=UUID=c8e669d6-890c-431a-9083-a5bee720d372 rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm4 vt: 7
dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Mini-pc System: IP3 Tech product: TX95 v: N/A serial: <filter>
Mobo: IP3 model: AB1A serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 0.02
date: 06/30/2020
Memory:
RAM: total: 7.62 GiB used: 1.68 GiB (22.1%)
RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
Info: Quad Core model: Intel Celeron N3450 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Goldmont
family: 6 model-id: 5C (92) stepping: 9 microcode: 40 cache: L2: 1024 KiB
bogomips: 8756
Speed: 796 MHz min/max: 800/2200 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 796 2: 1741
3: 988 4: 808
Flags: 3dnowprefetch acpi aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_capabilities
arch_perfmon art bts cat_l2 clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid
cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts ept ept_ad erms est
flexpriority fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht ibpb ibrs ida intel_pt lahf_lm lm mca mce
md_clear mmx movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pclmulqdq
pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pts rdrand rdseed rdt_a
rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep sha_ni smap smep ss sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer
tsc_known_freq tsc_reliable vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec
xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass status: Not affected
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
IBRS_FW, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 500 driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0
chip-ID: 8086:5a85 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: intel
unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2")
s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
Monitor-1: HDMI1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 500 (APL 2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.0.3
direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series Audio Cluster
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_apl
bus-ID: 00:0e.0 chip-ID: 8086:5a98 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.12.1-2-MANJARO running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.26 running: no
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
class-ID: 0200
IF: enp1s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wireless 3165 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: e000
bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:3165 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IF-ID-1: nordlynx state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: N/A
IP v4: <filter> scope: global
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 1-7:3 chip-ID: 8087:0a2a class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 235.56 GiB used: 109.94 GiB (46.7%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/mmcblk1 maj-min: 179:0 vendor: HP model: DF4128 size: 116.48 GiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B rotation: SSD serial: <filter>
rev: 0x8 scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 type: USB model: Genesys SD USB3 Reader
size: 119.08 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B serial: <filter>
rev: 1206 scheme: GPT
Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 118.79 GiB size: 116.87 GiB (98.39%)
used: 53.16 GiB (45.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdc2 maj-min: 8:34 label: N/A
uuid: c8e669d6-890c-431a-9083-a5bee720d372
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 312 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sdc1 maj-min: 8:33 label: N/A
uuid: 6EF9-53C7
ID-3: /mnt raw-size: 115.32 GiB size: 115.32 GiB (100.00%)
used: 56.79 GiB (49.2%) fs: ntfs dev: /dev/mmcblk1p3 maj-min: 179:3
label: OS uuid: 7802BE5802BE1AD8
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
ID-1: /dev/mmcblk1p1 maj-min: 179:1 size: 100 MiB fs: vfat label: SYSTEM
uuid: C2B5-68AC
ID-2: /dev/mmcblk1p2 maj-min: 179:2 size: 128 MiB fs: <superuser required>
label: N/A uuid: N/A
ID-3: /dev/mmcblk1p4 maj-min: 179:4 size: 957 MiB fs: ntfs label: Recovery
uuid: 08B2BED7B2BEC888
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 8 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
Hub-2: 1-2:2 info: Genesys Logic Hub ports: 4 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
power: 100mA chip-ID: 05e3:0610 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-2.1:4
info: Holtek Wired Keyboard (78/79 key) [RPI Wired Keyboard 5]
type: Keyboard,HID driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0
speed: 1.5 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 04d9:0006 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: 1-2.3:5 info: Microdia USB Device type: Keyboard,Mouse
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 4 rev: 1.1 speed: 12 Mb/s
power: 100mA chip-ID: 0c45:8101 class-ID: 0301
Device-3: 1-2.4:6 info: Logitech Keyboard K120 type: Keyboard,HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s
power: 90mA chip-ID: 046d:c31c class-ID: 0300
Device-4: 1-7:3 info: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: Bluetooth
driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA
chip-ID: 8087:0a2a class-ID: e001
Hub-3: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 7 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s
chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 2-3:2 info: Genesys Logic All-in-One Cardreader type: Mass Storage
driver: usb-storage interfaces: 1 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s power: 896mA
chip-ID: 05e3:0748 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter>
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 74.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 197 Uptime: 21h 45m wakeups: 6 Init: systemd v: 247
tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: 1295 pacman: 1290 lib: 403
flatpak: 5 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.4 running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.04
Unfortunately, I don’t remember exactly at which update this started. I’ve had (and continue to have) other problems with Bluetooth headphones freezing out my keyboard, and that was more my focus.
Has Pulse audio been updated recently?
Thanks for any ideas on this.
R