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MrTV
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 Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 12:17 am Post subject: Bluetooth Trackball Keyboard |
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Hi,
I am trying to get my shiny new bluetooth trackball keyboard working. I have found some threads here in the forums how to set a bluetooth keyboard up and it partly works. However I have the following problem: When I press some keys, I suddenly get a lot of "m" or "s" characters. This doesn't stop until I press a key on my normal keyboard. Looks like this:
| Code: | | tristan $ 1qammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm |
/var/log/messages also shows strange log entries. I googled for them but only found a kernel diff, which doesn't help.
| Code: | Feb 20 00:27:18 tristan hidd[7773]: New HID device 00:02:72:49:3C:2D (Bluelogic Technologies Inc. Bluetooth Keyboard)
Feb 20 00:28:55 tristan hidp_input_report: Unknown key (scancode 0xbc) pressed.
Feb 20 00:29:03 tristan hidp_input_report: Unknown key (scancode 0xbc) released. |
I noticed just right now that my normal keyboard also shows this behaviour. but apparently only when I press the "m" key. As soon as I plug out the bluetooth dongle the ghost is gone.
Does anyone have any idea ?
regards
Timo
PS: Here is a review with a picture of it: http://www.t3.co.uk/reviews/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=31118&subsectionid=759&subsubsectionid=676 |
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oystnsh
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| Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:05 pm Post subject: Any progress? |
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| Did you ever manage to get this keyboard to work properly? I think i have the same keyboard and definitely the same problems. |
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MrTV
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| Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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Hi oystnsh,
yes I managed to get it working with the kind help of Marcel Holtman. He pointed me at his kernel patch. After applying that one and recompiling / installing the new kernel it worked.
You can get the patch from here:
http://www.bluez.org/patches.html
Last time a applied it, it produced one hunk and that was only a minor naming issue. It worked although.
HTH
Timo |
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oystnsh
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| Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:22 am Post subject: |
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Hi Timo,
Yes, I finally found a reference to the patch on the bluez-usrs mailing list after posting here yesterday, and everything is fine now. Than k you anyway for your answer. Now the only thing left is to map the multimedikeys, but that should not be to hard.
Regards,
Øystein |
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