[Bluez-devel] bluez-utils vs patches

[Bluez-devel] bluez-utils vs patches

[Charles Majola]

Hi all,

After a lot of testing and user input is seems that applying the patches 
from git://.. ../holtmann/bluetooth-2.6.git bluez-utils blocks the 
functionality of HID devices. disabling bluez-utils get everything to 
work fine. dunno how to report this as a bug as of yet.

please see  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=142987 and 
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=143388

Regards
chmj


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Re: [Bluez-devel] bluez-utils vs patches

[David Woodhouse]

On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 14:28 +0200, Charles Majola wrote:
> After a lot of testing and user input is seems that applying the
> patches from git://.. ../holtmann/bluetooth-2.6.git bluez-utils blocks
> the functionality of HID devices. disabling bluez-utils get everything
> to work fine. dunno how to report this as a bug as of yet.

The problem seems to be just that we switch the Bluetooth device from
HID mode, where it automatically connects with the remote keyboard and
mouse, to HCI mode, where it expects _us_ to do that. And we don't
actually manage to reconnect to the existing keyboard and mouse.

Bluetooth HID devices _do_ work, to a certain extent, but not without
manually repairing the devices, I believe. We don't have it working
transparently, because I don't think we know how.

I suspect there must be a way to query a device in HID mode and find out
which remote HID devices it's connected to -- then we can immediately
try to reconnect to those devices after we switch to HCI mode. Or
there's something else we're missing.

-- 
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Re: [Bluez-devel] bluez-utils vs patches

[Charles Majola]

David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 14:28 +0200, Charles Majola wrote:
>   
>> After a lot of testing and user input is seems that applying the
>> patches from git://.. ../holtmann/bluetooth-2.6.git bluez-utils blocks
>> the functionality of HID devices. disabling bluez-utils get everything
>> to work fine. dunno how to report this as a bug as of yet.
>>     
>
> The problem seems to be just that we switch the Bluetooth device from
> HID mode, where it automatically connects with the remote keyboard and
> mouse, to HCI mode, where it expects _us_ to do that. And we don't
> actually manage to reconnect to the existing keyboard and mouse.
>
> Bluetooth HID devices _do_ work, to a certain extent, but not without
> manually repairing the devices, I believe. We don't have it working
> transparently, because I don't think we know how.
>   

We can have a GUI or something to manage the device, so that by default 
we leave the device in HID mode and the user can manually change it to 
HCI and start a HID daemon.

> I suspect there must be a way to query a device in HID mode and find out
> which remote HID devices it's connected to -- then we can immediately
> try to reconnect to those devices after we switch to HCI mode. Or
> there's something else we're missing.
>
>   
I suppose we can do that.

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Re: [Bluez-devel] bluez-utils vs patches

[David Woodhouse]

On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 08:09 +0200, Charles Majola wrote:
> We can have a GUI or something to manage the device, so that by default 
> we leave the device in HID mode and the user can manually change it to 
> HCI and start a HID daemon. 

Yes, that might work. You have to click the button in the GUI and then
stick both your bluetooth keyboard and mouse into 'discoverable' mode so
that they get picked up. It's a complete PITA though, and there _has_ to
be a better way. MacOS manages it better than this.

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