Yeah, I found that same voo doo on the Internet as well, but my success with it wasn't as good as yours. I could get the mouse to work by issuing some command in a terminal session, but when I turned the mouse off and back on, it didn't automatically connect back.
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<br />Either way, it never showed up in the Gnome app.
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<br />On May 5, 2009 2:03pm, Adam Williamson <awilliam@redhat.com> wrote:
<br />> On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 11:47 +0000, greg.lumpkin@gmail.com wrote:
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<br />> > It hasn't worked in a Linux distro unfortunately, but it did under
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<br />> FWIW, I have a Bluetooth mouse too. I can pair it in GNOME, but that
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<br />> So I've no idea why the hell it's working, which bugs me. But it does
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<br />> that's on my laptop, which runs F10.
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