Shift/Ctrl/Alt on Rocketfish (RF-BTKB4) bluetooth keyboard do not work.

[Nathan Fearnley]

Binary package hint: bluez

I purchased at RF-BTKB4 Rocketfish bluetooth keyboard in a keyboard/dongle/mouse set. The keyboard pairs fine. Linux detects the keypresses of Shift/Ctrl/Alt, but doesn't recognize when they are held down. Here are links to forum topics about the problem:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1355660
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1368160

The workaround of enabling "Simulate Simultaneous Keypresses" works, but needs to be reset everytime the keyboard comes out of sleep mode.

I have a USB Logitech illuminated keyboard, and a PS3 bluetooth keyboard that both work without the previous problem.

Attached are logs of me pressing 1-2-3-4-5, Holding Shift, pressing 1-2-3-4-5, Releasing Shift

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: bluetooth 4.60-0ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jul 5 11:48:05 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
InterestingModules: rfcomm sco bnep l2cap btusb bluetooth
MachineType: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. M6V
PackageArchitecture: all
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=c6267273-5d19-4cb7-97ea-7dacbc2ee34a ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: bluez
dmi.bios.date: 10/13/2005
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 0207
dmi.board.name: M6V
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr0207:bd10/13/2005:svnASUSTeKComputerInc.:pnM6V:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:rnM6V:rvr1.0:cvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:ct10:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.name: M6V
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
hciconfig:
 hci0: Type: USB
  BD Address: 00:02:76:18:BF:E9 ACL MTU: 1021:7 SCO MTU: 64:1
  UP RUNNING PSCAN
  RX bytes:13452436 acl:776359 sco:0 events:24463 errors:0
  TX bytes:41020 acl:1998 sco:0 commands:616 errors:0
rfkill:
 0: hci0: Bluetooth
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: no

[Nathan Fearnley (nfearnley)]

Also, this keyboard works completely fine under Windows 7 Ultimate, dual-booting on the same computer with the same dongle using the only the drivers that come with Windows. I did not have to install anything extra to get it work with windows.

[D. Hartman (daniel-hartman)]

This bug also affects the Bluetooth keyboard that ships with the Lenovo A300 IdeaCentre running Ubuntu 10.04. However, I have a custom desktop using an Apple Bluetooth Keyboard Model A1255 running Ubuntu 10.10 with no troubles.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Aleksandr Rakov (aleksandr-rakov)]

Hello!
A have Lenovo Ideacentre A320 and same problems with keyboard.

I wrote linux driver and it works good in ubuntu 12.04
Here is driver source code and install instructions
https://github.com/aleksandr-rakov/hid-a320
It may help you to solve problem just now

[Konrad Zapałowicz (kzapalowicz)]

This is reported against an old version of Ubuntu and many things has changed since then. Because of that we won't fix this issue however if this behavior repeats on a modern version please fill a bug report against it and we will take it from there.