Can't get bluetooth mouse to work in Fedora 8
Brian Millett
bmillett at gmail.com
Thu Mar 6 18:33:02 UTC 2008
Mike Iglesias escribío:
> I just got a Dell XPS M1330 laptop, and have set it up as a dual boot
> with Vista and Fedora 8. I have a bluetooth Dell Travel Mouse, and it
> works with Vista, but I can't get it to work with Fedora.
>
> When I turn the mouse on, there's no indication that Fedora has seen the
> mouse so I right clicked on the bluetooth icon in the upper panel and
> then selected "Browse Device". The display shows "Dell BT Travel Mouse"
> and indicates that it's a mouse. I select that and then click connect.
> I get this in a window:
>
> Couldn't display "obex://[mac addr of mouse]".
> Check if the service is available.
>
> The input service is running for bluetooth, so I'm not sure what
> "service" needs to be available. Is there something I should look for
> to make this mouse work?
>
>
To connect to my targus bluetooth mouse, I had to run
/usr/bin/hidd --connect 00:0C:55:02:05:8E
(replace with your address)
then afterwards, it was tied.
--
Brian Millett - [ Talia Winters, "A Race Through Dark Places"]
"He's been in my mind twice today. Why isn't he seeing this? Was that
the other part of the gift?"
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