Comment 136 for bug 32415

After searching the internet for solutions to my particular bluetooth problem, I've come across dozens of these bug reports. It's the same for each one:

"My keyboard/mouse won't reconnect after reboot/suspend/idle."

And the response has been the same too:

"Try entering this into your configs and/or uninstall bluetooth entirely." ('this' being a reference to instructions posted in one particular thread I've been directed to about 12 separate times; http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=227057)

I've read through all these bug reports for a solution, tried the workarounds--I'm still unable to get my keyboard or mouse to consistently connect on boot. It's not a viable option for me to find another keyboard every time I need to LOG IN. It wouldn't make me so upset if this was a relatively new occurrence. It's not. It's been around for a long while. Dapper, Feisty, Gusty, and now symptoms on Hardy too. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought these bug reports were supposed to fix bugs, not direct people to workarounds that don't work.

If there are so many reports, how is this problem not yet fixed? How is this on the back burner, while other negligible problems are being solved? Or maybe I'm the only one who needs a keyboard or mouse to operate Ubuntu--I don't think that's the case, considering the prevalence of laptops and wireless solutions touted in this modern age. These problems need to be fixed, especially if usability is of concern here.

It's not very welcoming to boot into Linux, only to be greeted by a login screen with no input method.