[Pkg-bluetooth-maintainers] Bug#498040: Acknowledgement (bluez-utils: HCI device spontaneously reverts back to HID)

[Filippo Giunchedi]

On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 05:23:27PM +0100, Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote:
> Actually, I have made a discovery here. This is a USB reset problem, not
> related to bluetooth. Whenever the keyboard/mouse disappear, so too does
> my USB compactflash card reader. I just normally don't notice it because
> I'm not using it. This USB reset causes the BT receiver hub to revert to
> HID mode.
> 
> In this case, I would like to change my bug report to a feature request,
> of:
> 
>   When a new USB HCI is plugged in and appears in HID mode, automatically
>   run hid2hci on it
> 
> This would at least mean the full keyboard+mouse works again after a bus
> reset, even if there's a short outage time inbetween.

this should be implemented in bluez 4 from unstable with udev, can you try it?


filippo
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