[ale] Bluetooth mouse on SUSE10.1

[James Taylor]

Thanks.  Worked perfectly...
-jt



James Taylor
The East Cobb Group, Inc.
678-697-9420
james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
http://www.eastcobbgroup.com







>>> On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at  2:40 PM, in message
<42116.66.35.162.130.1159555213.squirrel at webmail.spsu.edu>, "Justin Haygood"
<jhaygood at spsu.edu> wrote: 

> 
> Hidd -- connect bluetoothaddress
>  
> I Know it works, I use it on mine :)
>  
> No other config needed. X.org will pick it up the
> second they sync. Make sure to press the reset button on the mouse though
> before the first connect. After that, that command is totally unnecessary
> (its persistant for all eternity as long as you don't reset and resync
> with another PC)
> 
> 
>> I've been quietly being smug about the fact that people
> seem to have to
>> work through getting things configured on Ubuntu
> that just works on my
>> preferred distro (SUSE).
>> 
>> Now I have to ask for help on something.
>> 
>> I
> finally decided to try out Bluetooth mouse on my Sony Vaio SZ series,
>> and I can't get it working.
>> Bluetooth seems to be running
> and I can find the mouse's Blutetooth ID
>> listed  in the
> Bluetooth configuration tool.
>> 
>> I tried the trick of
> doing an ls - la /dev/input and got /dev/input/mice,
>>
> /dev/input/mouse0 and /dev/input/mouse1.
>> 
>> When I cat
> each of these, I get trash on my console screen when I use the
>>
> builtin touchpad with mouse1 and mice, but nothing on any of them when
> I
>> use the Bluetooth mouse.
>> 
>> I see by doing a
> little searching that a few other people had their
>> Bluetooth
> meeses  break when they upgraded to 10.1, but they have
>>
> generally been fixed by using cat trick above to adjust the xorg.conf
>> file.
>> 
>> I've never had a Bluetooth mouse on any
> previous versions, so I've never
>> had it working to begin
> with.
>> 
>> It's a Logitech V270 mouse, by the way.
>> 
>> - jt
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> James
> Taylor
>> The East Cobb Group, Inc.
>> 678- 697- 9420
>> james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com
>>
> http://www.eastcobbgroup.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>
> 
>> 
>> 
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