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 <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 10:43:25 -0700 > John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo: > >> On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 02:42:15 -0700 >> drew wymore <[email protected]> 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. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Sent from my mobile device _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
