Where's the bluetooth jargon demystifier?

[Bill Davidsen]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:03:28 +0000 (UTC)
> Mike  <mike.cloaked at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I also realised I had not used my BT mouse on my F8 laptop, and am in the
>> same boat as you guys!
> 
> As near as I can tell, the theory is that hidd is obsolete and the
> new InputService does the job. I accidentally stumbled across a
> wiki page that gave an example of some dbus gibberish used to
> feed the input service various info: http://wiki.bluez.org/wiki/Input
> (I've rarely seen such dense gibberish :-).
> 
> My impression is also that the gnome-bluetooth stuff is supposed to
> know how to talk to this thing, but the gui for bluetooth preferences
> is barely less cryptic than the wiki page.
> 
> By using the gnome utility in combination with manually running
> hidd --search and taking the back off the keyboard to get to the
> button I need to push to make it connect, I finally got the input
> service to record some files in the /var/lib/bluetooth tree, but
> even with the files there, I still don't get the keyboard automatically
> reconnected on a reboot - I still need to run hidd --search and
> push the button.
> 
Did you run the --connect command after finding the device? (I assume 
so, but BT is magic)

> It works much better with the logitech dongle that simply make it look
> like a USB keyboard, but unfortunately X or the linux USB layer
> or something doesn't recognize the mouse protocol, so the touchpad
> will only work with the bluetooth adapter.
> 
> So right now my choices are: No mouse, or no auto connection.
> 


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