I recently bought a USB bluetooth dongle as well as a bluetooth keyboard. The dongle works fine with btusb and a 'hcitool scan' reveals bluetooth devices in the area. Unfortunately the keyboard isn't found at all. Other devices I have can find the keyboard. After I installed bluez with "USE=old-daemons" and started the hold 'hidd' the keyboard is detected and I can get it working. Shouldn't the keyboard or HID devices in general work just fine without old-daemons, taking into account, that this useflag isn't set by default? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use bluez with 'USE="-old-daemons"' 2. Do hcitool scan - device is not found 3. Use bluez with 'USE="old-daemons"' 4. Start hidd 5. Do hcitool scasn - device is found Used bluetooth dongle: Bus 006 Device 002: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) Loaded bluetooth modules: $ lsmod | grep bt btusb 9137 2 bluetooth 42424 10 hidp,sco,bnep,rfcomm,l2cap,btusb usbcore 123503 12 rndis_host,cdc_ether,usbnet,cdc_acm,usb_storage,usb_libusual,btusb,usbhid,uvcvideo,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd 'hcitool scan' with hidd running: # hcitool scan Scanning ... XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX Bluetooth mini Keyboard
4.77 was just bumped to the tree, could you try if it still requires "old-daemons"?
Thanks for the hint Pacho, after updating it now does indeed find the device with hcitool scan. Do you by any chance also know how to do a connection to a bluetooth HID without hidd (if at all possible)? If it shouldn't be possible I guess we can mark this bug as resolved then.
(In reply to comment #2) > Thanks for the hint Pacho, after updating it now does indeed find the device > with hcitool scan. > Nice :-D > Do you by any chance also know how to do a connection to a bluetooth HID > without hidd (if at all possible)? > If it shouldn't be possible I guess we can mark this bug as resolved then. > About this, I think that you should try to ask on proper IRC channel as I am sure they will know much more than me about this, please visit: http://www.bluez.org/contact/ Good luck!
