On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 16:43 +0000, Mike wrote: > Jim <mickeyboa <at> sbcglobal.net> writes: > > > I do know that there was a problem with bluetooth working with cups, > > something about bluez-utils, I sent a bug in , Bug 435081 and supposedly > > they sent it upstream to be incorporated into the RPM to be released, > > but to this point bluetooth and cups still don't work together. > > You'll probably see the fix in FC 9. > > OK - I finally got my BT mouse to work and be recognised after reboot. > > I fiddled for ages but then right clicking on the kbluetooth icon in > the system tray I clicked on input devices - and tried to remove the > BT mouse line - I was then given the opportunity to select is as a > trusted paired device and it then appeared in the Configuration -> > paired/trusted Devices list. > > After that when re-booting it just works when I switch on the BT mouse. > > However it did not get into this correct state easily and certainly > needed quite some fiddling, and did not respond to the obvious menu > items in the kbluetooth list normally. > > So now that it is set up it works fine and smoothly. However this > kbluetooth is certainly buggy and could do with a look behind the scenes. > > However I would guess that unless there is a bz report with log files it > will be difficult to trace where the problems lie. It might be better > to see if kbluetooth works in rawhide and try and get tracebacks/logs > and report in bz if things do not run smoothly. However my rawhide box > does not have bluetooth so I cannot test it there. > > If anyone has rawhide on a machine that has bluetooth it would be well > worth testing both in kde and gnome ahead of release of f9 to avoid > grumbles after release. I'm the kdebluetooth maintainer... but I'm doubt that I can help as upstream is-more-less dead. Either way, please file a bug report and I'll do my best to push it upstream. - Gilboa
