[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-11-18 Thread Jeremy Visser
As of Ubuntu 9.10, all these problems are now fixed. Bluetooth pairing and file transfer is reliable, and even using a Bluetooth headset works out-of-the-box with the GUI, without needing to install additional packages. This is mainly due to upstream fixes in PulseAudio and BlueZ. ** Changed in:

[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-11-18 Thread Murz
Bluetooth headset didn't work out of the box on Karmic fresh install, see bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluez/+bug/437649 -- Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306721 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-07-19 Thread bigbrovar
oh great i was just checking to see how important this bug is to the ubuntu team .. guess what .. their still undecided 2 years and going .. and there say ubuntu and kubuntu are treated equally .. yeah right -- Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306721

[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-07-19 Thread bigbrovar
am still having this issue, am using kubuntu 9.04 and bluetooth is completely broken out of the box, i cant use my bluetooth, i have little hope that this would be fixed. this is a K-ubuntu , not Ubuntu the favoured child.. bluetooth as being broken now in two subsequent releases of kubuntu, but

[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-05-04 Thread TankerKevo
I am happy to report that I have upgraded my HTPC to Jaunty 64 bit and am now using my Logitech PS3 Bluetooth keyboard. Setup and recognition of the device went flawlessly, and it recognizes the keyboard at login after a reboot with out any special modifications. Simply said, it just works now.

[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-04-22 Thread RoboJ1M
Hi, likewise, my Belkin Bluetooth device (I believe it is an F8T013) does not work with any BlueZ after Ubuntu 8.04 (BlueZ 3?) The device is detected, Bluetooth GNOME applet is started but it doesn't do anything. hcitool scan produces timeout error. It look like BlueZ 4 has a long LONG way to

Re: [Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-04-22 Thread corqpub
-- Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306721 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-04-22 Thread corqpub
-- Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306721 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-04-14 Thread Nati
hey guys you probably hearing that a lot i am new to linux. i have the same problem described here and one of the solutions suggested here is to download BlueZ 4.25 so i did. one big problem i don't have any idea how to install it i read the readme file and still no idea. can someone please

[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-04-13 Thread djronh
Booting with a earlier kernel than the default in 8.10 allowed me to pair a phone and transfer a song. This was the only system change and pc went from broken to working. -- Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306721 You received this bug notification

[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-03-01 Thread Jeremy Visser
Okay, I updated my Intrepid system from BlueZ 4.25 to 4.30, and I got some working audio! I had to download the BlueZ source tarball and use the tests/simple-agent.py script to get a connection to the headset, since `hcitool cc` is broken. After a connection was established, PulseAudio

[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-02-27 Thread Jeremy Visser
No success here at all. In my O.P. I said it was working on Gentoo -- that was because it was still running BlueZ 3.36. Now I've updated my Gentoo system to BlueZ 4.28, and Bluetooth audio is completely broken on Gentoo as well. I guess this is not an Ubuntu-specific issue. I think Ubuntu should

[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-02-03 Thread Robie Basak
Backporting the latest from jaunty for both pulseaudio and bluez has fixed the problem for me - thanks. It looks like there's been a bluez API change which pulseaudio has had to catch up with, too. -- Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306721 You

[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-01-17 Thread crashed
Jeremy, Alendit I installed BlueZ 4.25 (and then 4.26) from source as mentioned in README file placed in tarball. Before installation I completely removed bluez packages from the system (in my case nautilus doesn't depend on bluez*: cras...@epbyminw1962h:~/src/bluez-4.26$ apt-cache show

[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-01-17 Thread crashed
Forgot to mention regarding the problem with bluetooth-applet that just few days ago everything worked perfectly including navigation in nautilus, file transfers, etc. -- Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306721 You received this bug notification

[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-01-17 Thread crashed
Fixed my last problem by modifying /etc/init.d/bluetooth (change HCID from /usr/sbin/hcid to /usr/sbin/bluetoothd). Now I can browse files on my Nokia phone, transfer file from/to device. -- Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306721 You received this

[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-01-15 Thread Alendit
Same here with Jaunty's 4.25 and 4.26 compiled from source :( In addition - in Ubuntu bluez upstream is divided in bluez bluez-alsa bluez-gstreamer libbluetooth3 etc - so you've got to override some files in order to install upstream package. I can't just remove mentioned packages with apt-get -

[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-01-09 Thread A. Waschbuesch
As mentioned above: compiled from source. -- Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306721 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-01-07 Thread Jeremy Visser
Ubuntu Jaunty now has 4.25 packages in the repository: http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=bluez So I downloaded the 4.25 packages and installed them onto my Intrepid system. No better. Instead of a BT_GETCAPABILITIES error, I get a BT_GET_CAPABILITIES error (the API must have changed).

[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-01-05 Thread A. Waschbuesch
Seems like bluez was severly b0rked. The latest bluez-release (compiled with gcc 4.3.2 / binutils 2.18.93-20081009) fixed all of the above mentioned (over here, that is): http://www.bluez.org/bluez-425/ -- Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306721 You

[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-01-05 Thread Jeremy Visser
I'm totally trying BlueZ 4.25 to see if it fixes anything. Thanks, Mr. Waschbuesch! :) -- Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306721 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2009-01-05 Thread crashed
I can confirm that installation of BlueZ 4.25 completely solved my problem. -- Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306721 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

Re: [Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2008-12-26 Thread Robie Basak
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 10:11:43AM -, Jeremy Visser wrote: However, I would like to re-emphasise that I can reproduce all the problems I describe in the description from the Ubuntu live CD, which is, in effect, a fresh install of

Re: [Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2008-12-25 Thread Jeremy Visser
On Thu, 2008-12-25 at 06:09 +, Robie Basak wrote: Could you try something please? This will clear out all existing pairings and settings, but I think it might have sorted some problems out when I was debugging bluez. After doing this, the applet was able to discover new devices. I

Re: [Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2008-12-25 Thread Jeremy Visser
On Thu, 2008-12-25 at 06:09 +, Robie Basak wrote: Jeremy, Could you try something please? sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth stop sudo mv /var/lib/bluetooth{,.bak} sudo mkdir /var/lib/bluetooth sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth start This will clear out all existing pairings and settings, but I

Re: [Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2008-12-25 Thread Jeremy Visser
On Thu, 2008-12-25 at 06:09 +, Robie Basak wrote: Jeremy, Could you try something please? sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth stop sudo mv /var/lib/bluetooth{,.bak} sudo mkdir /var/lib/bluetooth sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth start This will clear out all existing pairings and settings, but I

Re: [Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2008-12-24 Thread Jeremy Visser
On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 04:43 +, Robie Basak wrote: So I don't think it's a kernel issue. Interesting -- thanks. I'm now beginning to think my title Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10 is a bit inaccurate, as I just set up a Bluetooth PAN between my Ubuntu machine and a Vista

[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2008-12-24 Thread Robie Basak
Jeremy, Could you try something please? sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth stop sudo mv /var/lib/bluetooth{,.bak} sudo mkdir /var/lib/bluetooth sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth start This will clear out all existing pairings and settings, but I think it might have sorted some problems out when I was

[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2008-12-22 Thread TankerKevo
Bluetooth is broken for me as well. Ubuntu 8.10 w/ Latest updates as of 12/21/08 at 8PM. After updating the stable updates and having no luck and updated using the Intrepid proposed repository and still had no luck. I've tried removing and re-installing just about every bluetooth package in

[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2008-12-22 Thread TankerKevo
P.S. My bluez version is 4.23. -- Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306721 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2008-12-22 Thread TankerKevo
It seems like Bluetooth is fine in Kubuntu: http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3100328.0 From other posts I was thinking this was kernel related, but seems to be specifically affecting gnome. -- Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306721

[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2008-12-22 Thread Robie Basak
Could this be set to Importance: High please? Rationale: bluetooth is unusable in Intrepid. I have the same problem. hcitool scan can always see my devices when bluetoothd is not running. When bluetoothd is running, then sometimes hcitool scan fails; stopping bluetoothd and hciconfig down then

[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2008-12-22 Thread Jeremy Visser
I have been under the impression that it was a kernel bug, but I backported the Bluetooth kernel modules from 2.6.28, which did not fix it. -- Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306721 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2008-12-22 Thread Robie Basak
I've just booted 2.6.22-14-generic which is what I used to use on Hardy (it's from Gutsy but 2.6.24 on Hardy had other problems on my machine). It doesn't work - same error (with BT_GETCAPABILITIES). It used to work with this kernel on Hardy. So I don't think it's a kernel issue. -- Bluetooth

[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2008-12-21 Thread phyz
i'm also having this kind of problem too.The bluetooth applet can scanning any other bluetooth device however the pairing fails and it does'nt allow us to put the PIN.Beside,it seems like freezing when i try to set the visibility setting. -- Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2008-12-18 Thread jsl4980
I'm having the same problem. My Bluetooth device does not have a screen/keypad and I cannot input a PIN into the device. The GUI Bluetooth wizard does not allow me to change the PIN or enter a PIN on the GUI. Its impossible to pair with many devices - that's a complete show stopper for me. --

[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2008-12-15 Thread zeusOne
Same problem with Kubuntu 8.10 -- Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306721 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2008-12-09 Thread Jeremy Visser
Before some troll marks this as a duplicate, please note that all the other bugs similar to this are from people trying to do something similar, and the same Bluetooth bug happens to be occuring, but is not the central part of the problem, unlike this bug report. If anything, all the so-called

[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2008-12-09 Thread Jeremy Visser
I should also note that all the above commands work perfectly on Gentoo and Ubuntu 8.04. -- Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306721 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 306721] Re: Bluetooth is completely broken on Ubuntu 8.10

2008-12-09 Thread Jeremy Visser
** Description changed: Binary package hint: bluez In Ubuntu 8.10, Bluetooth is completely broken. I can reproduce this from two fresh installs of Ubuntu 8.10, and from the live CD. I have tested this on three computers, with two different Bluetooth dongles, and one built-in