Return-Path: Message-ID: <3aaafc130812080809xb2d1be8o22e004c55a62b07b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 11:09:19 -0500 From: "J.R. Mauro" To: "Bastien Nocera" Subject: Re: Apple Mighty Mouse and aluminum keyboard woes Cc: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1228728449.8307.8526.camel@cookie.hadess.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <20081208015213.GA11816@tuxbook-pro> <1228728449.8307.8526.camel@cookie.hadess.net> Sender: linux-bluetooth-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 4:27 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 20:52 -0500, J.R. Mauro wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I recently purchased an Apple Bluetooth Mighty Mouse and it's been giving me >> some grief. Both the mouse and the aluminum bluetooth keyboard I own fail to >> show up with hcitool or hidd, but both of them seem to be registering with the >> input subsystem as they both work. I can only imagine this is because I paired >> them with OS X (since I couldn't pair them with Linux). > > You couldn't pair them in Linux because you forgot to enable the > Bluetooth adapter, eg. hciconfig's output is empty. No, it's been on the whole time. > > Start the hid2hci daemon, and you will have Bluetooth. I get "No devices in [HID, HCI] mode found" no matter what I run. > >> Despite those hiccups, >> both of the devices *work* but the mouse is not sending scroll or squeeze >> events. I don't really care about the squeeze events, but the lack of scrolling >> is quite aggravating. > > It doesn't have scrolling because you're currently using the device in > "boot mode". Set it up properly using Bluetooth, and it'll work just > fine. That's a bit of a chicken and egg problem, because things like hcitool scan literally can't find the devices. I put both devices in /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf, is there something else I have to do to set them up? The guides on the web were pretty vague. Sorry if I'm asking newbie questions here. If there's a particular guide I should look at, I'd appreciate an "RTFM" with a link :) > > Cheers > >