James Pifer wrote:
I go to the official bluez-utils web site and their documentation page
basically says "You don't want to look at our docs, they suck.".
I go to the official bluetooth web site and their documentation either
tells me why I ought to be making bluetooth devices or talks about
radio spectrum and communications layers.
Where is the web page that explains to a human what the gibberish
in the hcid.conf man page actually means?
All I'm trying to do is arrange for my bluetooth keyboard (which definitely
works with manual poking and prodding) to work automatically once
my fedora 8 system has booted. Seems like it ought to be a simple task :-).
I have given up on BT for the moment. Under Windows there's a utility
which shows the mouse, the keyboard, the printer, and all the nearby
cell phones. Under Linux there's an icon which you can click (using a
PS2 mouse) which does nada. And after downloading all the bluez stuff
without reading the documentation (there is none on using the software,
as you note), no amount of clicking, typing, or swearing made anything
happen.
I've had similar experiences. I'm actually running OpenSuse 10.3 on my
laptop now. I'm running gnome but I have to run kbluetooth to get the
mouse to work. Couldn't get gnome to see it at all. Even with
kbluetooth, the mouse quits after a certain amount of inactivity.
Haven't figured out how much though. When this happens I have to
manually make kbluetooth reconnect. Very frustrating.
People wou use a GUI instead of the command line... ;-)
Since I actually stumbled over what looks like the answer, see the "-t"
option of the hidd command.
Now if I could get the --search command to *find* anything I would be
happy. But changing the timeout may solve your problems. And yes, dmesg
seems to show HID initializing, hidd runs fine, just doesn't see
anything. Like a keyboard, mouse, printer, and two cell phone sitting on
top of the &^%&^%&^ case! Bah!
Same mouse and same laptop running Vista I never had these issues. It
was found easily and never disconnected.
No way in hell...
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