Can't get bluetooth mouse to work in Fedora 8

Jim mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Thu Mar 6 20:46:09 UTC 2008


Donald Reader wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 09:50 -0800, Mike Iglesias wrote:
>   
>> 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?
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Mike Iglesias                          Email:       iglesias at uci.edu
>> University of California, Irvine       phone:       949-824-6926
>> Network & Academic Computing Services  FAX:         949-824-2270
>>
>>     
>
> More than likely I am just putting my foot in my mouth
> like usual when I try and help but you may need to
> install openobx in order to get it to work.
>
> Maybe it will help
>
> Donald Reader
>
>   
Here is howto on Bluetooth printing, this will be helpful in making sure 
the correct modules are loading and running some test.




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