Microsoft Bluetooth mouse 2.0 does not work

[Daniel]

Bleutooth card : Dell truemobile 350 internal bluetooth
Mouse Microsoft Intellimouse for Bluetooth 2.0 - no dongle
Bluez protocol stack
Ubuntu Breezy Badger
Dell inspiron 6000 laptop.

Scroll wheel not working. When i use Xev, Imwheel and Hcidump my scroll wheel
and my Forward/Back buttons are not recognized and i cannot use them.
I have tried everything, even crashed my X server 7 times :)

If you have any knowledge on how to make these work please respond to
<email address hidden>

[Charles Majola (chmj)]

Can you please tell me how are you using the mouse, with hidd or the built in bt
device is a hid proxy?

if using hidd please stop bluetooth services by typeing "sudo
/etc/init/d/bluez-utils stop" and then attach the output of "sudo hidd -n"

You might want to read this about bug reports :
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html

[Daniel Vollmer (maven)]

Hi!

I've had the same problem and gotten a bit further along with this:
The Breezy Ubuntu kernel (2.6.12) only includes rudimentary bluetooth support
for this mouse (or maybe other mice in general) because it only includes the
bootp-protocoll (for BT mouse support in the first place you have to edit
/etc/defaults/bluez-utils and set HIDD_ENABLED to 1).
I backported the bluetooth patches (http://www.bluez.org/patches.html), except
for PCMCIA support, to the Ubuntu kernel and suddenly the mouse worked in HID
mode including the wheel.
I think it is rather unlikely that the official Ubuntu kernel will be updated,
but maybe these patches could be included in next update (2.6.12-9.24)?

The assigned package should be changed to "linux" or "kernel" as bluez-utils
works just fine with the correct kernel implementation.

[Charles Majola (chmj)]

Thanks, I will get the patch included in the default kernel, just need to test
is some more during this release cycle.

[meba (jakub-rtfm)]

I am willing to test it too, using 2.6.15-14-386 from Dapper Drake, which is suffering the same problem. MH patch is a must :)

As you requested, hidd -n show nothing. I am attaching some debugging output i found, just let me know if you want more (I would really like to get my mouse working, i buyed it a week ago :)
root@arkeia:/usr/src# hcitool inq
Inquiring ...
        00:0D:3A:A3:FB:11 clock offset: 0x7b91 class: 0x002580
root@arkeia:/usr/src# hcitool info 00:0D:3A:A3:FB:11
Requesting information ...
        BD Address: 00:0D:3A:A3:FB:11
        Device Name: Microsoft Mouse
        LMP Version: 1.2 (0x2) LMP Subversion: 0x100
        Manufacturer: Broadcom Corporation (15)
        Features: 0xbc 0x02 0x04 0x28 0x08 0x08 0x00 0x00
                <encryption> <slot offset> <timing accuracy> <role switch>
                <sniff mode> <RSSI> <power control> <enhanced iscan>
                <interlaced pscan> <AFH cap. slave> <AFH cap. master>

I am using IBM R52 with integrated bluetooth.

[meba (jakub-rtfm)]

Well, i am changing priority of this bug, because i think, that Dapper Drake should not be released without MH patch, which is crucial for most of new bluetooth equipment

[meba (jakub-rtfm)]

Please, is there any progress in this bug?

[meba (jakub-rtfm)]

I can confirm that this bug exists in Dapper Drake. Still in need of MH patches

[Charles Majola (chmj)]

can you test the kernel from http://www.rootcore.co.za/ubuntu to see if it fixes the problem. It has been build with the MH patches.

[meba (jakub-rtfm)]

Well, finally, the mouse wheel works! But it seems, that this kernel broken my fglrx drivers (using linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-15-386), but i assume it's only version incompatibility and will be ok when this patch makes it to default ubuntu tree?

[meba (jakub-rtfm)]

Some log from broken fglrx module

[Charles Majola (chmj)]

Thanks for testing, yes the fglrx will be fixed once we include this patch by default in the kernel tree.

[Daniel Vollmer (maven)]

Being rejected for dapper means we'll have to build custom kernels for the coming half year as well, if we want proper blueooth-support, correct?

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

No, it just means that one task is enough.

[Charles Majola (chmj)]

This is the correct reason....

<dholbach> i just rejected the Ubuntu Dapper part of it
<dholbach> that was a malone bug, it's fixed now
<dholbach> we shouldn't distinguish between "Ubuntu Dapper" and "Ubuntu", as Dapper is not released yet

So the bug is still open for "Ubuntu"

[Daniel Vollmer (maven)]

Scroll wheel works for me in the new 2.6.15-17.24 kernel :)

[Daniel Robitaille (robitaille)]

Reported fixed in March with the latest kernel back then