[Bug 601950] [NEW] Shift/Ctrl/Alt on Rocketfish (RF-BTKB4) bluetooth keyboard do not work.

[Nathan Fearnley]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: bluez

I purchased at RF-BTKB4 Rocketfish bluetooth keyboard in a keyboard/dongle/mouse set. The keyboard pairs fine. Linux detects the keypresses of Shift/Ctrl/Alt, but doesn't recognize when they are held down. Here are links to forum topics about the problem:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1355660
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1368160

The workaround of enabling "Simulate Simultaneous Keypresses" works, but
needs to be reset everytime the keyboard comes out of sleep mode.

I have a USB Logitech illuminated keyboard, and a PS3 bluetooth keyboard
that both work without the previous problem.

Attached are logs of me pressing 1-2-3-4-5, Holding Shift, pressing
1-2-3-4-5, Releasing Shift

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: bluetooth 4.60-0ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jul  5 11:48:05 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
InterestingModules: rfcomm sco bnep l2cap btusb bluetooth
MachineType: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. M6V
PackageArchitecture: all
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=c6267273-5d19-4cb7-97ea-7dacbc2ee34a ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_CA.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: bluez
dmi.bios.date: 10/13/2005
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 0207
dmi.board.name: M6V
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr0207:bd10/13/2005:svnASUSTeKComputerInc.:pnM6V:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:rnM6V:rvr1.0:cvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:ct10:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.name: M6V
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
hciconfig:
 hci0:	Type: USB
 	BD Address: 00:02:76:18:BF:E9 ACL MTU: 1021:7 SCO MTU: 64:1
 	UP RUNNING PSCAN 
 	RX bytes:13452436 acl:776359 sco:0 events:24463 errors:0
 	TX bytes:41020 acl:1998 sco:0 commands:616 errors:0
rfkill:
 0: hci0: Bluetooth
 	Soft blocked: no
 	Hard blocked: no

** Affects: bluez (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 lucid

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Shift/Ctrl/Alt on Rocketfish (RF-BTKB4) bluetooth keyboard do not work.
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