Bluetooth mouse hotw-to?

[DiBosco]

Folks,

Is there a how-to for getting a bluetooth mouse in Mageia please? A google search reveals nothing [to me].

I can pair with the mouse, but can't work out for the life of me how to make it move my cursor.

Ta.

[doktor5000]

What desktop environment do you use? Also, what mouse do you use?

For a howto, there are some:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bluetooth_mouse
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bl ... figuration
https://wiki.debian.org/HOWTO/BluetoothMouse

There are also some threads here in the forums about bluetooth mice:
viewtopic.php?f=41&t=7580
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5406
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1463

[DiBosco]

It's KDE.

I'd seen all those forum threads, but I can't find anything that says, once you're paired, do x, y and z. All thoise threads say vague things like "if i select the device in known devices and connect", however, I don't know what that means. Is it pairing? If it's not, how do you actually connect. Should it show up in "Set up pointer device" in MCC for example?

It's an Apple mouse that I'm trying to connect to my Macbook pro.

]Tthe Debian how-to you posted says type:

hidd --connect $BTADDRESS

I could try that and see if it turns up in MCC or just works. Will try that tomorrow. Thanks

I did do Google dsearches for KDE and Bluetooth mouse and found no how-tos, even tried Google searches for Linux Bluetooth mouse, but didn't see those and wouldn't have really thought to look at a Debian on Arch one.

[wintpe]

As far as im aware once its paired it works just as if you plugged in a usb mouse.

that is assuming you paired it as a pointing device, and not just paired it as a bluetooth device.

if its not working, then its not because you have not done something, its because there is a problem with the mouse.

I use kwin with rasorqt so you could say im using kde.

I use the microsoft wedge bluetooth mouse with my asus ux31 ultrabook and once its paired it just works.

I did have some issues after pairing with it sleeping and then needing repairing, but that was down to mga2 bugs with bluetooth
and having to use a pin number to make it stay paired.

As soon as i moved to mga3 once paired it instantly starts working the second its switched on.

hope knowing that helps you look beyond trying to find something you have not done to enable it.

regards peter

[DiBosco]

Thanks, Peter.

Mine pairs with no intervention, but I have noticed if you look at known devices when clicking on the Bluetooth icon it says "No supported services found". I Googles this thinking that it might shed some light...but it didn't. That sounds like a driver issue to me.

[DiBosco]

Hmmm, I wonder whether Mageia needs this Magic mouse driver:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AppleMagicMouse

Although, I'm wondering whether the fact it just works in later versions means it's in later kernels.

[doktor5000]

Seems the driver should be merged into normal kernel since quite some time, from a short glance.
Check e.g. https://github.com/entrope/linux-magicmouse

[MontyWilliams]

mageia 4 or 5 apha2 x86_64 dual boot on Macbook pro (2009)

Magic mouse crashes bluedevil when clicked.
Device is discovered but cannot be used.

In gnome, bluetooth just sits there looking confused.

On the other hand, Mageia works well as virtual machine in VB, OSX host.


Edit - aditional info:

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[monty@Williams_MacBook ~]$ bluetoothctl
[NEW] Controller 00:25:00:5D:60:58 Williams_MacBook [default]
[NEW] Device B8:78:2E:EE:74:69 Administrator’s Mouse
[bluetooth]# list
Controller 00:25:00:5D:60:58 Williams_MacBook [default]
[bluetooth]# devices
Device B8:78:2E:EE:74:69 Administrator’s Mouse
[bluetooth]# info B8:78:2E:EE:74:69
Device B8:78:2E:EE:74:69
        Name: Administrator’s Mouse
        Alias: Administrator’s Mouse
        Class: 0x002580
        Icon: input-mouse
        Paired: yes
        Trusted: yes
        Blocked: no
        Connected: no
        LegacyPairing: no
        UUID: Human Interface Device... (00001124-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
        UUID: PnP Information           (00001200-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
        Modalias: usb:v05ACp030Dd0306
[bluetooth]# connect B8:78:2E:EE:74:69
Attempting to connect to B8:78:2E:EE:74:69
[CHG] Device B8:78:2E:EE:74:69 Connected: yes
Failed to connect: org.bluez.Error.Failed
[CHG] Device B8:78:2E:EE:74:69 Connected: no


using bludevil - the kde crash handler gives error message:

Executable: Bluedevil-input PID: 13613 Signal: segmentation fault (11) Time (xxx)

Module hid_magicmouse was not loading. Have written it into modules.conf. Does not help - crash is still the same.


Cheers