USB mouse not working upon bootup

[HarveyB]

Breezy Badger Wrote: 
> So can you tell me how to do this in idiot terms?  I am not familiar
> with the bluetooth manager.  What should I do.  This mouse thing is
> driving me freaking bonkers
I wish I knew exactly. 



To be specific I did the changes to the /etc/default/bluez-utils file
as listed in this thread. One thing I had to do (but may or may not
have anything to do with it) was to not add the changes to the
HIDD_OPTIONS="--master --server" line. Maybe I didn't do that one
correctly, I'm not sure but I am not using it now and my mouse works.



I had to run the sudo hidd --connect (mac address) a number of times. I
would get the connection but would then loose it when I rebooted. I
don't know if gnome-bluetooth-manager had anything to do with it, only
that when I first installed it with synaptec it wouldn't find the mouse
but after playing a bit it did. 



My best advice would be to change the "HDD_ENABLE=0" line to
"HDD_ENABLE=1"  and run the "sudo hidd --connect (mac address)"  a few
time (at various stages) until you get a connection. Note the it took a
couple of times for me before the info was "remembered" when I rebooted.




Not very scientific but it worked for me twice (as I reinstalled my O/S
working out another problem)



Good luck!


-- 
HarveyB