Comment 75 for bug 32415

On Tue, January 30, 2007 11:20, Marcel Holtmann said:
> I think all these problems on Apple based system are caused by a race
> condition in the startup and init routines for the Bluetooth adapter. I
> am pretty sure that I finally fixed this. At least my Quad G5 running
> Edgy now has no problems anymore.
>
> The main problem was that the command for setting the scan mode failed.
> And this means that the adapter was available, but neither page scan nor
> page inquiry were set. This results in a non-connectable and non-
> discoverable Bluetooth adapter. However HID mice and keyboards wanna
> reconnect to the adapter and if it is in non-connectable mode (page scan
> off) then they simply can't.
>
> This race condition was present on all architectures, but for some
> strange reason only the Apple machines with the HID proxy adapters
> suffered from it.
>
> Anyhow this has been fixed with the bluez-utils-3.9 release and for
> Feisty it might be a good idea to simply sync with the new upstream
> source.

I disagree, the problem is not only on Apples! See my previous posts.
It's also on x86. Or else it's a related but different problem, but "for
the rest of us", we can't tell the difference.

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Amedee