Question regarding MS bluetooth keyboard/mouse

Bluez-devel Shawn Fisher 2 participants 3 messages Oct 6, 2005 – Oct 7, 2005 Bluetooth drivers

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Shawn Fisher

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2005-10-06 22:16 UTC #0 lore raw

Hi, I am unsure as to where to post this, if this is the wrong place, please feel free to let me know. Please don't be irritated if this is in the wrong list, I am out of ideas, and this was the last place I had left to ask this question.

I recently purchased the MS Keyboard Elite/Intellimouse combo for bluetooth, and I do have them running with bluez (Version 2.19) under kernel version 2.6.13.2. While I could care less about getting the multimedia keys working on the keyboard, I do have a problem with the mouse wheel not working in anything(Including xev).

I usually just run hidd --search and it brings up both the devices, but when I do a(n) hidd --show, it shows both of the devices connected using boot-protocol. My thought (At least from reading about the boot-protocol in the kernel documentation) was that this setup was the very basic setup for a wireless mouse/keyboard combination, and that nothing else besides the 104 key/3 mouse buttons were supported).

I have scoured the web and found lots of somewhat out-dated material involving bt-hidd (Which from what I gather has since been incorporated into Bluez), changing my xorg.conf script to use ExplorerPS/2, etc, but nothing has helped me find a solution to this issue. Running cat on /dev/mouseX from the command line will show activity in the mouse when I move, and press one of the 3 common mouse buttons, but nothing shows up for the wheel (the 2 side buttons and the tilt buttons are in the same category, but of little importance to me).

I should also let you know that I have no problems being a test subject, if there are any patches (I did try applying the 2.6.13-MH1) I could test out for anyone. I am also fairly competent with c (I would love to wrestle with this problem myself, but have a quite a bit on my plate already), and am willing to help out wherever possible.

If there is any more information you may need, feel free to let me know, Shawn

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Marcel Holtmann

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2005-10-07 07:13 UTC #1 lore raw

Hi Shawn,

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I am unsure as to where to post this, if this is the wrong place, please feel free to let me know. Please don't be irritated if this is in the wrong list, I am out of ideas, and this was the last place I had left to ask this question.
I recently purchased the MS Keyboard Elite/Intellimouse combo for bluetooth, and I do have them running with bluez (Version 2.19) under
kernel version 2.6.13.2. While I could care less about getting the
multimedia keys working on the keyboard, I do have a problem with the mouse wheel not working in anything(Including xev).
I usually just run hidd --search and it brings up both the devices, but when I do a(n) hidd --show, it shows both of the devices connected using boot-protocol. My thought (At least from reading about the boot-protocol in the kernel documentation) was that this setup was the very basic setup for a wireless mouse/keyboard combination, and that nothing else besides the 104 key/3 mouse buttons were supported).
I have scoured the web and found lots of somewhat out-dated material involving bt-hidd (Which from what I gather has since been incorporated into Bluez), changing my xorg.conf script to use ExplorerPS/2, etc, but nothing has helped me find a solution to this issue. Running cat on /dev/mouseX from the command line will show activity in the mouse when I move, and press one of the 3 common mouse buttons, but nothing shows up for the wheel (the 2 side buttons and the tilt buttons are in the same category, but of little importance to me).

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I should also let you know that I have no problems being a test subject, if there are any patches (I did try applying the 2.6.13-MH1) I could test out for anyone. I am also fairly competent with c (I would love to wrestle with this problem myself, but have a quite a bit on my plate already), and am willing to help out wherever possible.

using patch-2.6.13-mh1 gives report mode protocol support, but this doesn't mean all Microsoft specific stuff is supported. I only have the old Microsoft Bluetooth desktop at home and the mouse works perfect with this patch. Maybe they changed some reports for their new model.

Regards

Marcel

Shawn Fisher

author

2005-10-07 18:19 UTC #2 lore raw

Boy, I am very embarrassed, it appears that when I did apply the patch, I was also patching some swsusp2 stuff and testing that out. Anyways, it looks like the process I used to get bluetooth working may have involved swapping the patched sources with an unpatched kernel(Sigh). I retested it with the patch, and the mouse wheel works flawlessly. Sorry to have wasted your time.

Shawn

Quoted 23 lines · Marcel Holtmann

Hi Shawn,
Quoted 6 lines
I am unsure as to where to post this, if this is the wrong place, please feel free to let me know. Please don't be irritated if this is in the wrong list, I am out of ideas, and this was the last place I had left to ask this question.
<snip>
I should also let you know that I have no problems being a test subject, if there are any patches (I did try applying the 2.6.13-MH1) I could test out for anyone. I am also fairly competent with c (I would love to wrestle with this problem myself, but have a quite a bit on my plate already), and am willing to help out wherever possible.
using patch-2.6.13-mh1 gives report mode protocol support, but this doesn't mean all Microsoft specific stuff is supported. I only have the old Microsoft Bluetooth desktop at home and the mouse works perfect with this patch. Maybe they changed some reports for their new model.
Regards
Marcel

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