hid2hci disables keyboard after upgrade to 10.04

[Peter Hurley]

Binary package hint: udev

Automatically running hid2hci (in /lib/udev/rules.d/70-hid2hci.rules) when a usb bt mini-receiver is found is undesirable behavior. Whether to run the bt mini-receiver in HID mode or HCI mode should be configurable by the user and should survive upgrade.

Before upgrading from 9.10, I had disabled HCI mode (by editing 70-hid2hci.rules) because I have a multi-boot computer (the bluetooth system design fails to account for multi-boot).

After upgrading to 10.04, I no longer had keyboard access because pairing requires a keyboard!

A couple of suggestions for addressing this:
1. Installer preserves existing 70-hid2hci.rules
2. Installer asks user which mode if 70-hid2hci.rules is edited
3. Add another means of preventing hid2hci from running (ala env var or whatever)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: udev 151-12 [modified: lib/udev/rules.d/70-hid2hci.rules]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.39-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Aug 17 12:23:44 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation T5400
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-24-generic root=UUID=ef8ca756-ffd4-4504-afc1-55e991332186 ro crashkernel=384M-2G:64M,2G-:128M quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: udev
dmi.bios.date: 08/21/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A04
dmi.board.name: 0RW203
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 7
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA04:bd08/21/2008:svnDellInc.:pnPrecisionWorkStationT5400:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0RW203:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct7:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Precision WorkStation T5400
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[Peter Hurley (phurley)]

Also, this bug prevented me from installing maverick alpha-3 from cd because I could not input *anything* with a non-functioning mouse or keyboard.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Konrad Zapałowicz (kzapalowicz)]

This is reported against an old version of Ubuntu and many things has changed since then. Because of that we won't fix this issue however if this behavior repeats on a modern version please fill a bug report against it and we will take it from there.