Re: Bluetooth mice?
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 04:27:47PM -0400, Gabriel Farrell wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 08:04:32PM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> > Anyway have any experience using a Bluetooth mouse on a notebook
> > running Debian?
> >
> > I am running Debian Etch on a Fujitsu P7120.
>
> I've been using a Kensington bluetooth mouse [1] for a while that's
> pretty awesome. I'm running unstable on a Thinkpad x31 with internal
> bluetooth. I don't know if the Fujitsu has internal, but getting it
> to work with a usb bluetooth adaptor should be no problem. IIRC, all
> I had to do was install the bluetooth package and compile the kernel
> with bluetooth support.
It better have internal Bluetooth or I will be having cross words
with the person that sold it to me as having such ;)
I'm not really sure how it looks to the system, but lsmod shows:
hci_usb 13812 0
bluetooth 41732 1 hci_usb
which I assume means it is handled like (or maybe is) a USB device.
dmesg shows:
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
Bluetooth: Core ver 2.8
NET: Registered protocol family 31
Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: HCI USB driver ver 2.9
usbcore: registered new driver hci_usb
and /proc/bus/usb/devies includes:
T: Bus=04 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=e0(unk. ) Sub=01 Prot=01 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=044e ProdID=3001 Rev=11.68
S: Manufacturer=ALPS
S: Product=USB BT
C:* #Ifs= 3 Cfg#= 1 Atr=e0 MxPwr=250mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=e0(unk. ) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=hci_usb
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 16 Ivl=1ms
E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms
E: Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms
I: If#= 1 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=e0(unk. ) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=hci_usb
.
.
which I am guessing means that it is an internal device connected via
the USB bus, and that my Etch kernel came with Bluetooth configured
out of the box...
> Only bummer is that I have to turn off bluetooth before I suspend, and
> when I wake up I have to turn bluetooth back on and do "sudo hidd
> --search" to use the mouse again. If I forget to turn it off I have
> to reboot to get bluetooth working again.
I havn't even tried to mess with suspent/hibernate functions yet,
but thanks for the warning. I'll bear it in mind when I get there.
I didn't have 'hidd', but just did an apt-get of 'bluetooth' and
now I seem to have it, as well as some extra system messages:
Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.6
> [1] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16826125026
Looks like it would do the trick, though I would rather like to
find a traditional three button mouse like my old PS/2 Logitec.
I suppose I am going to have to settle for the 'wheel as middle
button' compromise...
Thanks,
DigbyT
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