From owner-freebsd-bluetooth@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 28 17:24:21 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C74B16A4CE for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:24:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailgate1b.savvis.net (mailgate1b.savvis.net [216.91.182.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA13B43D3F for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:24:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Maksim.Yevmenkin@savvis.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailgate1b.savvis.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E2CE3BE9C; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:24:19 -0600 (CST) Received: from mailgate1b.savvis.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailgate1b.savvis.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 06109-01-65; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:24:19 -0600 (CST) Received: from out001.email.savvis.net (out001.apptix.savvis.net [216.91.32.44]) by mailgate1b.savvis.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 535A93BE33; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:24:19 -0600 (CST) Received: from s228130hz1ew03.apptix-01.savvis.net ([10.146.4.28]) by out001.email.savvis.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:24:12 -0600 Received: from [10.254.186.111] ([66.35.239.94]) by s228130hz1ew03.apptix-01.savvis.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:23:49 -0600 Message-ID: <42483D9F.2090805@savvis.net> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:23:43 -0800 From: Maksim Yevmenkin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040822 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ronald Klop References: <42444AB4.7080300@savvis.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 28 Mar 2005 17:23:50.0049 (UTC) FILETIME=[E8141110:01C533BA] X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at savvis.net cc: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bthidd X-BeenThere: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Using Bluetooth in FreeBSD environments List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:24:21 -0000 Ronald, >>> Is bthidd usable? It isn't connected to the build. >> >> define "usable"? :) you should be able to use it with bluetooth mice, >> but not with bluetooth keyboards. so, imo, its not very usable at the >> moment. bluetooth keyboard support is not there because i do not like >> the fact that i can not have more then one keyboard attached to the >> system. as soon as i find some time i will look into the system >> console driver to see what it takes to add support for more then one >> keyboard. > > Usable... Mmm. I have a SonyEricsson K700i phone and on Windows I can > use the joystick of the phone as a mouse to control mediaplayer, etc. I > would like to do the same on FreeBSD, just for the coolness of it. :-) :) > Can I just do this? i do not know. it depends. if k700i looks like mouse then it most likely will work. if k700i looks like keypad/keyboard then it will not work (for the reason described above - cant have more then one active keyboard/keypad attached to the console). there is a bthidcontrol(8) tool in /usr/src/usr.sbin/bluetooth/bthidcontrol. could you please compile it and send me the output of "query" command? there is a bthidcontrol.8 man page in the same directory ("nroff -man bthidcontrol.8 |less" - to read it) > cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/bluetooth/bthidd/ > make && make install && make clean > > Or is there more to it? you will also need to create /etc/bluetooth/bthidd.conf configuration file. bthidcontrol(8) will help you with that. max