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

[Filippo Giunchedi]

On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 09:25:54PM +0200, Mourad De Clerck wrote:
> On 01/06/06 19:10, Filippo Giunchedi wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 08:52:13PM +0000, Edd Dumbill wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 03:47 +0100, Mourad De Clerck wrote:
> <snip>
> >>> 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.
> <snip>
> >> We should probably make this configurable and switch it off by default.
> <snip>
> > So what might be the best thing to do here?
> > HID2HCI_ENABLED=0 in /etc/default/bluetooth and modify /etc/init.d/bluetooth
> > accordingly? (and put a note in NEWS.Debian about it)
> > 
> > which are the effects of not switching it on at boot like it is done now?
> 
> Well, I'm not sure if this is the case with all dongles, but in my case
> not switching means bluetooth won't work.

Could you try with newest bluez-utils package? (3.1-2, but 3.1-3 is imminent)
If it still doesn't work we should talk to upstream and try to figure this out.

thanks,
filippo
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