Re: [Bluez-devel] Question regarding MS bluetooth keyboard/mouse

[Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>]

Hi Shawn,

> I am unsure as to where to post this, if this is the wrong place, 
> please feel free to let me know.  Please don't be irritated if this is 
> in the wrong list, I am out of ideas, and this was the last place I had 
> left to ask this question.
> 
> I recently purchased the MS Keyboard Elite/Intellimouse combo for 
> bluetooth, and I do have them running with bluez (Version 2.19) under 
> kernel version 2.6.13.2.   While I could care less about getting the 
> multimedia keys working on the keyboard, I do have a problem with the 
> mouse wheel not working in anything(Including xev). 
> 
> I usually just run hidd --search and it brings up both the devices, but 
> when I do a(n) hidd --show, it shows both of the devices connected using 
> boot-protocol.  My thought (At least from reading about the 
> boot-protocol in the kernel documentation) was that this setup was the 
> very basic setup for a wireless mouse/keyboard combination, and that 
> nothing else besides the 104 key/3 mouse buttons were supported).
> 
> I have scoured the web and found lots of somewhat out-dated material 
> involving bt-hidd (Which from what I gather has since been incorporated 
> into Bluez), changing my xorg.conf script to use ExplorerPS/2, etc, but 
> nothing has helped me find a solution to this issue.  Running cat on 
> /dev/mouseX from the command line will show activity in the mouse when I 
> move, and press one of the 3 common mouse buttons, but nothing shows up 
> for the wheel (the 2 side buttons and the tilt buttons are in the same 
> category, but of little importance to me).
> 
> I should also let you know that I have no problems being a test subject, 
> if there are any patches (I did try applying the 2.6.13-MH1) I could 
> test out for anyone.  I am also fairly competent with c (I would love to 
> wrestle with this problem myself, but have a quite a bit on my plate 
> already), and am willing to help out wherever possible.

using patch-2.6.13-mh1 gives report mode protocol support, but this
doesn't mean all Microsoft specific stuff is supported. I only have the
old Microsoft Bluetooth desktop at home and the mouse works perfect with
this patch. Maybe they changed some reports for their new model.

Regards

Marcel




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