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bluez package

  1. Bug #32415 (bluetoothhid)
  2. Comment #128

Comment 128 for bug 32415

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neskweek (sebastiencapou) wrote : Re: Bluetooth Mouse and Keyboard Broken in Dapper/Edgy/Feisty

(:P Send the last report as I didn't finished it. Sorry Off course the attached file is to read after my thread )

Then in the kernel bug report we can see that the bug you're hunting is located on the hidp kernel module.

I'm currently searching if this patch was installed in the ubuntus kernel : http://www.bluez.org/patches.html (my guess is that it's not. That could explain why bluetooth mouses and bluetooth keyboards don't come up )

Here is my thread on gentoo forums related to Dinovo Keyboard set. Hope it Helps:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-231506-highlight-dinovo.html

PS : the hidd --connect thing is to be done when you want to use your mouses keyboards in BT mode. When you desinstall bluez-packages mouses and keyboards work because then you use another kernel modules (HID if I remember well, in USB section) BUT using that modules restrict the radius of use of your devices (1 or 2 meters instaed of 10 meters using BT mode). Also you may not be able to use all buttons as intended (don't know why ... just seen it).

PS2: As I was searching I saw this in /etc/default/bluetooth :

############ HIDD
#
# To have Bluetooth mouse and keyboard support, get the
# Linux 2.6.6 patch or better from bluez.org, and set
# HIDD_ENABLED to 1.

Clear enough : the bluez patch isn't installed that's why mouses and keyboards doesn't work in BT mode.
No need to dig more
I install it and come back to you to tell you the results