I got a bluetooth mouse, now what? (resolved)

[Christopher J. Bottaro]

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Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:

> 'bluetooth mouse fedora' didn't return anything useful from google.  Where
> do I even begin?  I tried kdebluetooth, but the daemon just locks up when
> i try to start it...
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 

Here is how to get a Bluetooth mouse to start automatically pairing with
Fedora Core 3:

# do the initial pairing
service bluetooth start
hidd --server --search

# make sure it pairs at boot and automatically repairs when needed
echo 1234 > /etc/bluetooth/pin # this step might be unnecessary?
echo HIDDARGS=\"--server\" > /etc/sysconfig/hidd
chkconfig --level 35 hidd on
chkconfig --level 35 bluetooth on

Hope that helps someone.