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From: Charles Majola <charles@rootcore.co.za>
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Subject: Re: [Bluez-devel] bluez-utils vs patches
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Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 08:09:40 +0200


David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 14:28 +0200, Charles Majola wrote:
>   
>> After a lot of testing and user input is seems that applying the
>> patches from git://.. ../holtmann/bluetooth-2.6.git bluez-utils blocks
>> the functionality of HID devices. disabling bluez-utils get everything
>> to work fine. dunno how to report this as a bug as of yet.
>>     
>
> The problem seems to be just that we switch the Bluetooth device from
> HID mode, where it automatically connects with the remote keyboard and
> mouse, to HCI mode, where it expects _us_ to do that. And we don't
> actually manage to reconnect to the existing keyboard and mouse.
>
> Bluetooth HID devices _do_ work, to a certain extent, but not without
> manually repairing the devices, I believe. We don't have it working
> transparently, because I don't think we know how.
>   

We can have a GUI or something to manage the device, so that by default 
we leave the device in HID mode and the user can manually change it to 
HCI and start a HID daemon.

> I suspect there must be a way to query a device in HID mode and find out
> which remote HID devices it's connected to -- then we can immediately
> try to reconnect to those devices after we switch to HCI mode. Or
> there's something else we're missing.
>
>   
I suppose we can do that.

--
chmj


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