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bluez package

  1. Bug #32415 (bluetoothhid)
  2. Comment #44

Comment 44 for bug 32415

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Zhares (launchpad1) wrote : Re: Bluetooth Mouse and Keyboard Broken in Dapper & Edgy

@Lothar

I don't pretend that everything is OK, I just notice that people seems to look at the wrong place. There may be a problem on the config files, but that's not what I've noticed. I've seen an error 14 after a call to ioctl in hidd (with different dongles and devices) and some people are talking of disabling bluetooth (unplug/re-plug the dongle) to make it work in hardware mode. That is what hurts Ubuntu's reputation, I think. I'm sorry i've been rude in my previous post and I apologize for that.

What you describe seems to be the problem that everybody has: there is nothing that automatically detect you mouse over bluetooth. You need to run or setup hidd like explained everywhere:
sudo hidd --connect aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff
I agree that is a bug, but that is far away from the problems we have on ppc.