Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:20:24 -0800 From: Maksim Yevmenkin <maksim.yevmenkin@savvis.net> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org, Jona Joachim <jona.joachim@free.fr> Subject: Re: Support for Bluetooth Keyboards? Message-ID: <456B4888.5060903@savvis.net> In-Reply-To: <456B43CC.1000107@centtech.com> References: <20061126005413.0faaea7b@localhost> <1164502329.816.8.camel@RabbitsDen.RabbitsLawn.verizon.net> <456B292D.3000509@savvis.net> <456B43CC.1000107@centtech.com>
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Eric Anderson wrote: > On 11/27/06 12:06, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: >> Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko wrote: >>> On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 00:54 +0100, Jona Joachim wrote: >>>> Hi! >>>> I wanted to know if Bluetooth keyboards are likely to work on FreeBSD. >>>> I'm looking at this marvellous object to be precise: >>>> http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/8193/ >>>> >>>> They say that they "were able to get the Bluetooth Virtual Laser >>>> Keyboard to work with Mac OSX using the built-in bluetooth support in >>>> the OS." >> >> then it should work in releng_6 and -current. >> >>> I am running Apple Bluetooth keyboard on -CURRENT. I order to accomplish >>> that, I have followed steps outlined by Eric Anderson here >>> >>> http://destari.blogspot.com/2006/01/setting-up-bluetooth-mouse-on-freebsd.html >>> >>> >>> There seems to be a quirk in the bthidd which causes it reattach >>> keyboard every couple of minutes, so I am accustomed to seeing vkbd >>>> 10000 being attached but these seem to be harmless enough. YMMV, >>> though. >> >> hmmm... i'd like to get more information on this. does this happen >> when you type on the keyboard? or when keyboard is idle? >> >> if this happens when the keyboard is idle, then, i'd guess, the >> keyboard simply kills the bluetooth connection to conserve battery. if >> bluetooth connection was in fact killed then bthidd(8) will close >> vkbd(4) device and it will, in turn, detach vkbd(4) keyboard. >> >> in any case, could you please get an hci dump (binary) when this >> happens and sent it to me? or could you please tell me how to >> reproduce this locally? > > I see something like this too, but with mice. I use a microsoft > bluetooth explorer mouse, and when it disconnects and goes into battery > sleep mode, and then comes back, it registers a new vkbd device. Here's > some snippets: [...] hmm... could you please post hid descriptor from your microsoft bluetooth explorer mouse? also, binary hci dump (that captures detach/reattach event) would be nice. thanks, max
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