Problem with bluetooth mouse- 8.10

[Karl Larsen]

John wrote:
>
> --- 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
>>     
>
>   
    Please tell us more. Are you using a USB Dongal that is your 
Bluetooth device for the computer? It works with Windows because you 
have drivers for windows. But there are no drivers for Linux. Bluetooth 
is very nice but it is not available for many things.

Karl


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