On Fri, 2015-09-04 at 13:42 -0400, Ian Savoy wrote: > Hey all, > > I splurged on a new mx master mouse a few weeks ago, and it's been > working > fine using the unified receiver that is included with the mouse. > However, > it's not the only bluetooth device i have, and it would be nice not > to have > two easy-to-lose dongles stuck in my laptop at all times (not to > mention > 2/4 USB ports occupied). > > The problem I have is that I can pair the mouse with my bluetooth > adapter > just fine (BCM20702A0-19ff-0239), however, I don't get any output > when i > click and/or wiggle the mouse. > > I've seen in other forums, people getting this mouse to work with > bluetooth > on ubuntu and fedora. Claims that it works out of the box over > bluetooth. > > I'm curious if any gentoo users have been able to successfully use > this > device over a bluetooth adapter, and if so, what bluetooth adapter > you're > using, what kernel you're running, what modules are loaded, and if > there > were any tweaks you had to make after pairing your mouse to get it to > work > properly. > > -everything- works when i use the unified reciever, even the weird > thumb > button and horizontal scrolling. Nothing works, other than pairing > and > connecting/disconnecting, over bluetooth. > > Thanks in advance! > > -- > Ian Savoy > LoTeK Systems
Hi Ian, I have the MX Anywhere 2 mouse working over bluetooth flawlessly. I believe they use the exact same Bluetooth hardware. However, it took me quite a lot of time to get it to work. What follows may not be a complete list of things to check :) The mouse doesn't work with >bluez-5.25 and <bluez-5.34. IOW, I had to mask 5.32 and 5.33 with which it didn't work and use 5.25. Recently 5.34 appeared in portage and it works. With the broken version there would be an error message in syslog. You can get more error messages in syslog though and some of them don't matter for using the mouse. I didn't have the UHID config option (IIRC, I hope it was this one) in my kernel. Again, there was an error message in syslog that was not very clear to me, mixed with a few other error messages. I've been fighting a bit with the ucode for my BT adapter to be loaded, it seemed the pairing would work even without it but the mouse wouldn't work. My kernel is 4.0.5-gentoo and my bluetooth is Intel Wireless Bluetooth 7260. I compile everything into the kernel, so I can't tell you the modules. If you don't get it to work after checking the above, try posting the relevant messages from your syslog. cheers, Lukas PS: For completeness, I had to disable USB power management for the bluetooth adapter, otherwise I'd get a delay before the mouse would work again after not using it for more than ~10 seconds.
