From owner-freebsd-bluetooth@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 30 14:12:27 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 9832A16A4CE for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:12:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ronald.echteman.nl (h8441134153.dsl.speedlinq.nl [84.41.134.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2903B43D3F for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:12:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org) Received: (qmail 18069 invoked from network); 30 Mar 2005 14:12:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.thuis.klop.ws) (10.0.1.4) by ronald.echteman.nl with SMTP; 30 Mar 2005 14:12:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 1468 invoked from network); 30 Mar 2005 14:12:06 -0000 Received: from localhost.thuis.klop.ws (HELO smtp.local) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.thuis.klop.ws with SMTP; 30 Mar 2005 14:12:06 -0000 To: freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org References: <42444AB4.7080300@savvis.net> <42483D9F.2090805@savvis.net> Message-ID: Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:12:05 +0200 From: "Ronald Klop" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <42483D9F.2090805@savvis.net> User-Agent: Opera M2/7.54 (FreeBSD, build 955) 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: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:12:27 -0000 On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:23:43 -0800, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: > 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. Thanks for the info. I'm going to try this soon. But I left my phone at my moms house, just one evening before she went on holiday for two weeks. :-( Ronald. -- Ronald Klop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands