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

[Edd Dumbill]

On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 03:47 +0100, Mourad De Clerck wrote:
> 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.
> ...
> 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.

-- Edd