On 07/22/2016 11:54 AM, Rick Stevens wrote:
On 07/22/2016 10:39 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan@gmail.com wrote:
Wild thought: how good is the battery level in the mouse?
75% right now. The problem happens the same whether 15% or 90% on Fedora, and never on macOS.
I have occasional blips with my BT mouse in KDE (using a Broadcom dongle) especially after resuming from suspension (not so much for hibernation). They fix themselves when I pull the dongle and reinsert it, or use a second mouse to click on the KDE BT widget Connect button. I've never been able to figure out what's going on.
There's definitely a conflict. On a clean reboot with both WiFi and Bluetooth left on at reboot time, the mouse/keyboard never connect. I have to turn off the WiFi radio itself, and then boom, Bluetooth devices connect pretty much instantly.
The disconnect from Bluetooth seems to coincide with the WiFi radio disconnecting from on AP MAC address and connecting to a different AP MAC address. This laptop does this disconnect/reconnect routine exactly every two minutes, always, to the second. I'm guessing it must be unique behavior to its WiFi firmware. A nearby Intel NUC also on Wireless doesn't behave this way, it goes hours or even days connected to one of those two APs.
Both bluetooth and wifi use the 2.4GHz frequency band. If you have dual-band wifi, try using a frequency in the 5GHz band. Failing that, try to get your wifi to use a different channel. That may clear it up. This is always going to be an issue.
I have had this issue as well for EVER :) I simply stopped using BT.