[Bluez-users] Re: diNovo/MX900 problem with hidd

Dick
2005-07-09T09:48:34Z

Patrick W. Healy <phealy <at> phealy.com> writes:
> Greetings, everyone. I'm having some issues with getting my bluetooth
> keyboard and mouse to work, and they're getting rather frustrating.
> Perhaps someone can help me.
>
> I have a Logitech diNovo media desktop and the matching MX900 mouse,
> which I am attempting to pair with the internal bluetooth on my Dell
> Inspiron 8500. I can get them to pair successfully, and even move and
> type, but the mouse movement is extremely jerky and useless, while the
> keyboard types erratically and quite often repeats keystrokes.
>
> I'm using a 2.6.12 kernel and the latest bluez in debian unstable (hcid
> 2.15) along with all the bluetooth modules compiled and ready.
>
> I also usually receive a message saying "Can't create HID control
> channel: Invalid exchange", along with input output errors and errors
> about the file descriptor being in a bad state. Sometimes the pin auth
> system comes up, sometimes it doesn't.
>
> Any help? I'd be happy to provide any additional information needed.

I've got a Logitech dinovo and it works like a charm on my Dell Latitude D800,
I've had some bad experience with an external sitecom dongle (laggy mouse)

You should enable auth and encrypt in hcid.conf, or enable it manually with
hciconfig hci0 auth encrypt

If your keyboard / mouse are already associated you should move the mouse
around for a while to reconnect and keep pressing enter on the keyboard until
it connects. If that failes you should press the connect buttons and start
scanning with hidd --search. I'm using kbluepin as pin helper, so I must have a
running X server for the association. Your error messages might be related to
that (a failing pin helper).

I'm really happy with my dinovo and bluez, it's way better than the
apple/widcomm/microsoft bluetooth stacks and I hope this helps.

greetings,
Dick