Return-Path: Message-ID: <556BF636.9060300@ubnt.com> Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 09:05:42 +0300 From: Andrejs Hanins MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kirill Elagin , linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bluez killing Apple Magic Trackpads References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Sender: linux-bluetooth-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Kirill, On 05/31/2015 11:32 PM, Kirill Elagin wrote: > Hello, > > I like using an Apple Magic Trackpad instead of a mouse but there is a > major inconvenience: they keep dying. Another one just died five > minutes ago, and it is the third to die during the last 1.5 years. > During this period of 1.5 years I switched a number of kernel versions > (having 3.19.1 right now) and Bluez 5 versions (5.25 now). I’m not > sure, it might be that the first one died while I was using Bluez 4. > > The first one lasted for three months, the second one was working for > almost a year, and this last one has been with me for a month or two. > > I am surprised that I couldn’t find anything about this in Google, so > I decided to ask here, has anyone heard of such a problem? They die > unexpectedly: one day I will try to connect it to my laptop or desktop > and it won’t do anything, and will start blinking its LED in an > unusual manner. Just FYI: I've been using Apple Bluetooth Keyboard and Magic Trackpad for a year or so on Ubuntu, no any problems. Usage is on daily basis. > > That’s definitely Apple’s fault that their trackpads react this way to > some probably unexpected event, but I just wonder, does anyone have an > idea what might cause this? I don’t know how to diagnose the problem > as they die after random periods of time and become absolutely > unresponsive. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >