[Bug 550288] Re: bluez fails to discover mx5000 keyboard and mouse

[Casey J Peter]

Well...my issue seems to have cleared up...but still not sure completely
what caused it to begin with.

I unplugged...replugged...unplugged and then replugged the reciever
several times, the last time holding in the red reset button.

The last time, for whatever reason, the utility discovered the mx5000
keyboard, requested a new input pin number, and suddenly it all decided
to work again. (including the mouse).

Two reboots as well as a cold shutdown later and lucid seems to remember
the keyboard/mouse and works during login, only now the "bluez" applet
no longer shows up in the indicator panel after things settle
out...which was the way things were before this wankyness started
happening in the first place.

My guess here, and its ONLY a guess after rooting through several debian
udev bug reports and such is that for some reason the rules don't switch
the logitech bluetooth receiver from one mode to another with any
reliability. This behavior, as far as I can tell from research, started
happening sometime mid-january for some users.

Under Arch there are no issues whatsoever, and Karmic as well. Under
Lucid it appears that resetting the keyboard with a new passkey
completely has fixed this, but it did require multiple plug/removes of
the receiver as well as holding down the red reset button on the device
to get bluez to recognize the keyboard.  It would see the mouse, but the
entry would always disappear after a few minutes in bluez preferences.

My fix to this issue is more along the lines of banging on the box with
a hammer, but it does seem to have done the job.  As to the issue, I'm
not alone with the problem, but at least for now, the mx5000
keyboard/mx1000 mouse are functioning again with the hardware/software
in this bug report.

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bluez fails to discover mx5000 keyboard and mouse
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/550288
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