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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: BlueZ users <bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] Microsoft IntelliMouse with kernel 2.6.18 and	patch-2.6.18-mh1 is broken (fix provided)
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 09:52:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1159343538.22162.11.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <451A1A54.3020903@brainhub.org>

Hi Andrey,

> Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer for Bluetooth had decent support in 
> older version of kernel patch, I believe patch-2.6.15-mh2. I could use 
> scroll wheel and additional buttons. The only issues that I could not 
> solve satisfactory were smooth activation from sleep, on boot, and 
> after a timeout. "Smooth" means without reseting the mouse every time by 
> pressing small button on its bottom.
> 
> I decided to give a try to the latest kernel 2.6.18 with Fedora Core 5 
> and patch-2.6.18-mh1 with latest bluez tools. The start appeared 
> promising: unpatched kernel 2.6.18 with FC5 and bluez 2.25 enables 
> IntelliMouse via Boot protocol with the resumption from sleep working! 
> This is an improvement from earlier versions. This doesn't bring the 
> closure, though, because the boot protocol lacks the support for scroll 
> wheel and additional buttons.
> 
> I upgraded to bluez 3.5 but this didn't make any difference. I then 
> patched the kernel with patch-2.6.18-mh1. This killed the mouse:  the 
> cursor would not move.
> 
> I finally was able to solve the problem by using the  previous 
> patch-2.6.15-mh2 against the 2.6.18 kernel with minor cleanup.  The 
> patch is here:
> 
>     http://www.brainhub.org/patch-2.6.18-mh1aj.bz2
> 
> Note that it will produce a few harmless warnings.

can you send your changes against a recent 2.6.18-mhX kernel. Sending
the whole patch doesn't help to identify the problem.

Regards

Marcel



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  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-27  7:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-27  6:29 [Bluez-users] Microsoft IntelliMouse with kernel 2.6.18 and patch-2.6.18-mh1 is broken (fix provided) Andrey Jivsov
2006-09-27  7:52 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2006-09-27  8:26   ` [Bluez-users] Microsoft IntelliMouse with kernel 2.6.1 " Andrey Jivsov
2006-09-29 11:52     ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-09-29 17:58       ` Andrey Jivsov

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