Bluetooth audio flakey on new Arch install | Linux For All | Page 1

mighty beacon Sep 11, 2023, 1:10 AM

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On fresh install with Arch Linux + KDE Plasma, audio playing through bluetooth headphones cuts in and out/is spotty. As I installed KDE, I am using bluedevil, and both pipewire and pulseaudio are installed, although I'm not sure which is in use. I have tried multiple pairs of headphones, and confirmed that the problem is present on all of them. On other distros (I've tried Ubuntu) the problem is not present. I am on a laptop (Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 ProX [14ARH7]). The wifi/bt card is (acording to lspci) a Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device b852 using the rtw89_8852be driver (provided by rtw89-dkms-git).

Any ideas as to whats going on? Any help is welcome!

fluid plume Sep 16, 2023, 7:35 PM

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rtw89_8852be -- Is a WiFi Network driver, has nothing to do with Bluetooth. Realtek, to my knowledge, doesn't even do bluetooth. So what's providing your actual bluetooth device?

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According to this, though... https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=285721 Something you should look into.

mighty beacon Sep 18, 2023, 4:00 AM

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fluid plume rtw89_8852be -- Is a WiFi Network driver, has nothing to do with Bluetooth. Real...

from lsusb:
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0bda:4853 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Bluetooth Radio

fluid plume Sep 18, 2023, 4:01 AM

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Okay. Well, that problematic, as that device has active current known issues.

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And you're on Arch, so you're kinda SOL, until it's fixed upstream.

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