Comment 5 for bug 211893

@Brian Murray : bug 198494 does indeed cover the pairing issue mentioned, but that's the simple bit.

@MsTiFtS : bug 39414 is similar, but concerns a USB-BT adapter. In this case the adapter works with multiple devices (keyboard, mouse and several phones using obex-transfers and HID). Only BT-audio seems to cause the problem in this case.

Unfortunately my BT-1.2 headset has died so I can't test that one any more. What I've dug out so far pointed to the kernel failing to fall back from eSCO (BT-2.x) to SCO (BT-1.x). I have however tested a BT 2.0 headset (Jabra BT5010) with the same result, so so much for that theory. What remains to be tested is the kernel-patch that others on the bluez-users-list have reported to work.