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  1. Bug #584812
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 584812

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Jerone Young (jerone) wrote : Re: bluez init script should try to load uinput kernel module

Here is a proposed change to the init script.

--- bluetooth.orig 2010-05-23 23:21:27.604764873 -0500
+++ bluetooth 2010-05-23 23:24:53.606012449 -0500
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ set -e

 case "$1" in
   start)
+ #Try and load uinput kernel module. Bluez uses to pass
+ #keypresses from bluetooth deivces up to userspace.
+ modprobe uinput >/dev/null 2>&1
+
     #currently this init script exists only because of what appears to be
     #an egg and chicken problem
     # bluetoothd normally starts up by udev rules. it needs dbus to function,