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  1. Bug #32415 (bluetoothhid)
  2. Comment #98

Comment 98 for bug 32415

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T. Koehler (leavenworth) wrote : Re: Bluetooth Mouse and Keyboard Broken in Dapper/Edgy/Feisty

Confirmed on feisty (up-to-date as of posting) on i386:

I can only use my bluetooth keyboard and mouse (Microsoft Office Desktop Elite) in HIDP-mode.

Patching the kernel (2.6.20-10-lowlatency) with the latest patch from www.bluez.org (-mh1) resolves the issue.

I had the same problem in several other distros (most notably gentoo), since about kernel version 2.6.12 (I had no bluetooth set before that).

I am curious why the bluez.org site states that its patches are included in the more recent kernels if I had to apply the patch manually to all the kernels since then to resolve the issue I have.

Proposed solution: Include the -mh-patch in the standard ubuntu kernel by default, especially if this patch fixes the multitude of issues other users seem to be having (tests, anyone?).

As an afternote: The bluetooth set worked fine in Edgy until about 12/06.