Re: Where's the bluetooth jargon demystifier? - solved (but rocky road to solution)

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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


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