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: > > 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.
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? filippo -- Filippo Giunchedi - http://esaurito.net PGP key: 0x6B79D401 random quote follows: Caelum, non animo mutant, qui trans mare currunt Who crosses the sea changes the sky, not the soul. -- Oratius
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