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nanoczar
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 Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:17 pm Post subject: [solved] Bluetooth mouse disconnects... |
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I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 with bluetooth. I also have a Microsoft bluetooth mouse. The work together in harmony when I run the following...
| Code: | nanoczar@quantum ~ $ sudo hidd --search
Searching ...
Connecting to device 00:50:F2:E9:A1:2C
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But the mouse disconnects shortly after if I am not constantly using it. Is there a way to lengthen this disconnect feature? I am new to the bluetooth/wireless scene and am beatting my head on my desk over this one... Grrrrr.
Thanks,
-nanoczar
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Plazmic
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| Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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I use a Microsoft Bluetooth Intellimouse with my thinkpad's built in bluetooth. I've found that the mouse has a timer of roughly 12 minutes before it goes idle. When it does, moving it around for a few seconds will engage it and it should start working in X again momentarily.
Have you specified the --connect xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx --server in the config files and are you starting hidd on boot?
Any details would be helpful... such as how long it idles before disconnecting etc.
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Xithix
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| Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Sounds like you need to use a cron job |
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nanoczar
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| Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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It seems that the is the trick. I connect the mouse on boot using the /etc/conf.d/local.start and then execute the server command. It reconnects after I move it around just like you said (Plazmic). Kudos!
-nanoczar
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laurentgedm
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| Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 4:29 pm Post subject: |
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I have another problem with my bluetooth mouse (acer ferrari's built-in BT controller).
Everything was fine til today: every 30 sec or so, the controller would stop responding => mouse unusable for a while. It would then work fine for a while.
This without any explanation: the mouse is charging when i use it, and i didn't change anything to my configuration. It just happened out of nothing.
Any idea? Hope it's not a hardware failure... i'll test it in windows later. |
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nanoczar
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| Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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Check the mouse configuration and see if that is the time given for the mouse to disconnect. Mine seems to last about 10-12 minutes or so. Testing it in Windoze might help...at least it will give you an idea if it is hardware related or not.
-nanoczar
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laurentgedm
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| Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 5:01 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry,
this looks like a hardware problem. It freezes in windows too.
Is it possible that linux broke it? I hope not.
Thanks for your help anyway,
Laurent |
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