[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#355497: bluez-utils: hid2hci --tohid does not work

[Mourad De Clerck]

Edd Dumbill wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 03:47 +0100, Mourad De Clerck wrote:
>> So bottom line is: switching from HID to HCI works, switching back doesn't 
>> (and never has I might add). For the record: my keyboard is a Logitech DiNovo 
>> Media Desktop with an MX900 BT mouse.
> 
> I notice Ubuntu have disabled the hid2hci switching completely.  It
> works fine on my DLink dongle, but it may not be a good thing to have
> enabled by default.
> 
> We should probably make this configurable and switch it off by default.

I see. The disadvantage of disabling it is that even though your input
devices will most likely work, you won't have any bluetooth functionality.

I guess it'd be good to have a NEWS.Debian entry or debconf question on
this issue in that case.

Ideally, upstream would look into fixing the hid2hci switching for the
different types of dongles, but considering Logitech's non-existant
developer support I'm not holding my breath.

Thank you anyway,

-- Mourad