Can't get bluetooth mouse to work in Fedora 8

[Brian Millett]

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?"