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Dude, Bluetooth is not part of some underlying sound system or something. In windows, there is something called drivers that are made by either Microsoft or Broadcom, etc... Now, these drivers EMULATE (kinda) a sound card, which windows just sees as a normal sound card. So windows is not really doing anything... Now, have you tried to mess with the sound on windows? Yea, there is something called ASIO, which is needed for real time sound applications like Guitar Rig and stuff. It took a lot of hacking to get ASIO4ALL to work, just like what is going on here. Though I agree that sound is more unified (even though there is more than one, aka ASIO and PulseAudio) on windows, and was quite good on Vista, the open nature of Linux promotes many different sound systems. And I can use Stereo Mix on Linux! yea!

Now, the problem on the tablets is that the drivers don't have Bluetooth stereo. What the people here are are trying to do is put those features back into the tablet. Give them some respect. Im guessing that soon the DSP thing will start to work, and there will be a .deb (i hope ).

On another note, it took me about a week of hard work to install bluetooth on Vista (not microsoft's crappy bluetooth, but broadcom driver). A week wasted on somthing that was really plug and play on linux.

Last edited by Thesandlord; 2008-07-18 at 22:34.