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

[Mourad De Clerck]

Package: bluez-utils
Version: 2.25-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

according to the manpage, hid2hci is used to switch HID proxy bluetooth dongle 
into the HCI mode and back. The bluetooth initscript tries to make use of it
on stop/shutdown. 

However, it doesn't seem to work for me: my symptom is that I have no way of 
typing on my system, when I reboot after booting first in Debian. The BIOS or 
the GRUB menu are inaccessible if I last booted in Debian.

When I try to execute hid2hci --tohid manually, I get the following error 
message:

# hid2hci --tohid
No devices in HID mode found

# lsusb
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 046d:c707 Logitech, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 046d:c704 Logitech, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0451:2036 Texas Instruments, Inc. TUSB2036 Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

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.

Thanks,

-- Mourad DC

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-k7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages bluez-utils depends on:
ii  libbluetooth1                2.25-1      Library to use the BlueZ Linux Blu
ii  libc6                        2.3.6-3     GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libdbus-1-2                  0.61-3      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libusb-0.1-4                 2:0.1.11-5  userspace USB programming library
ii  lsb-base                     3.0-15      Linux Standard Base 3.0 init scrip
ii  makedev                      2.3.1-80    creates device files in /dev
ii  module-init-tools            3.2.2-2     tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  modutils                     2.4.27.0-4  Linux module utilities
ii  sysvinit                     2.86.ds1-12 System-V-like init utilities

bluez-utils recommends no packages.

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