Problem with bluetooth mouse- 8.10

[John]

--- On Mon, 11/24/08, John <jmuielewicz at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: John <jmuielewicz at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Problem with bluetooth mouse- 8.10
> To: jmuielewicz at yahoo.com
> Date: Monday, November 24, 2008, 2:22 PM
> --- On Sun, 11/23/08, John <jmuielewicz at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: John <jmuielewicz at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: Problem with bluetooth mouse- 8.10
> > To: "ubuntu list"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > Date: Sunday, November 23, 2008, 10:15 PM
> > In Ubuntu 8.10 I am having trouble getting my
> bluetooth
> > mouse working. My bluetooth keyboard works fine. Both
> work
> > fine in windows xp. 
> > 
> > I switch on the mouse, put it in discoverable mode.
> Start
> > the computers discoverable mode. The computer finds
> the
> > mouse and says its configured but never loads any
> driver for
> > the mouse and the mouse doesn't leave discoverable
> mode.
> > It is stuck in it and I have to boot back to windows
> to fix
> > the mouse. 
> 
> I got it working. I installed the bluez3 utils package and
> installed the mouse by using hidd. I typed sudo hidd -s and
> it found and enabled the mouse. There must be some bug in
> bluez4. I looked in /var/lib/bluetooth and didn't find
> any info about the mouse, in spite of the fact the compuetr
> said it was configured, but the keyboard had full config
> info there.
> 
> john