[PLUG] Bluetooth woes, brainstorm needed

[drew wymore]

Glad it's working John. I don't have enough bluetooth gear to fiddle
around and see if I can help you figure out the weirdness you're
seeing. Maybe if you can nail down a use case and file a bug with the
Ubuntu devs so they are at least aware of it.

On 8/8/09, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 10:43:25 -0700
> John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> dijo:
>
>> On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 02:42:15 -0700
>> drew wymore <drew.wymore at gmail.com> dijo:
>> >
>> > Doesn't sound like a bluetooth problem at all but rather a problem with
>> > X
>> > and bluetooth John. Since 2 BT mice don't work but the phone does and X
>> > is
>> > the difference in the equation I'd check /var/log/X.log.* when you have
>> > the
>> > issue with the BT mice.
>
>> Later this afternoon I am going to try a couple things:
>>
>> 1) Rename xorg.conf and then reboot. After Jaunty (or was it Intrepid?)
>> I understand the xorg.conf file is not really used any more. Ubuntu
>> should generate a new one, so we'll see what happens.
>>
>> 2) While reading the X log I was reminded that I am using the nv
>> driver. I will try switching to the nVidia driver and see what happens.
>
> I started by installing the nVidia drivers with "nvidia-xconfig," then
> rebooting. When it booted I had both bluetooth mice turned on, and the
> USB mouse turned off. Neither bluetooth mouse worked, so I turned on
> the USB mouse in order to have at least something working, then opened
> a terminal. From the terminal "hcitool scan" found the Logitech
> bluetooth mouse, but not the Razer. And "hcitool cc <Logitech address>"
> got the Logitech bluetooth mouse working. Yay! Subsequently "hidd
> --connect <Razer address>" got the Razer working.
>
> There were substantial changes to bluetooth stuff in Intrepid. One
> change is that hcitool became the new utility for bluetooth
> functionality, replacing hidd. But hidd is still in the repositories
> and I had reinstalled it when I was trying to get my bluetooth
> headphones working again, which the upgrade to Intrepid broke. I'm glad
> I still have hidd, although I have no idea why it could connect to the
> Razer and hcitool could not. And before switching to the nVidia driver,
> neither hidd nor hcitool could connect to either bluetooth mouse.
>
> Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
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