Re: [Bluez-users] MS Optical Desktop for bluetooth - Stops working after a time

Marcel Holtmann
2004-09-17T09:01:24Z

Hi Daniel,

> I am using the MS Optical Desktop for Bluetooth (to great success) on
> Fedora Core 2, kernel . I do have a minor problem though.
>
> The mouse and keyboard work fine. The problem is that after they are
> left inactive for ~30 seconds, they seem to disconnect or 'power save'
> and it takes a while for the connection to be re-established. Altering
> the 'timeout' using something like:
>
> hidd -t 10
>
> does not help.
>
> Any ideas?

show us the output of "hciconfig -a".

> Another minor problem is that I tend to leave my system running
> constantly, after ~2 days, the mouse stops working and will not
> restart, I have tried replacing the batteries, reconnecting the
> devices and restarting the hci0 device (hciconfig hci0 down, hciconfig
> hci0 up).
>
> Would restarting hidd help, I cannot find a 'clean' way to shut it
> down and I will try killing it and restarting it the next time that it
> happens. The only solution that I currently have is a reboot.
>
> Thanks for your time, as I said, they are only minor problems so,
> don't worry about it too much.

In general the mouse should disconnect after 12 minutes and reconnect
when it is needed again.

Regards

Marcel