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

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

[Shawn Fisher]

Hi, 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.

If there is any more information you may need, feel free to let me know,
Shawn


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

[Marcel Holtmann]

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

[Shawn Fisher]

Boy, I am very embarrassed, it appears that when I did apply the patch, 
I was also patching some swsusp2 stuff and testing that out.  Anyways, 
it looks like the process I used to get bluetooth working may have 
involved swapping the patched sources with an unpatched kernel(Sigh).  I 
retested it with the patch, and the mouse wheel works flawlessly.  Sorry 
to have wasted your time.

Shawn

Marcel Holtmann wrote:

>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.
>>
>><snip>
>>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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