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On Fri, 2015-09-04 at 13:42 -0400, Ian Savoy wrote: |
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> Hey all, |
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> |
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> I splurged on a new mx master mouse a few weeks ago, and it's been |
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> working |
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> fine using the unified receiver that is included with the mouse. |
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> However, |
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> it's not the only bluetooth device i have, and it would be nice not |
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> to have |
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> two easy-to-lose dongles stuck in my laptop at all times (not to |
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> mention |
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> 2/4 USB ports occupied). |
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> |
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> The problem I have is that I can pair the mouse with my bluetooth |
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> adapter |
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> just fine (BCM20702A0-19ff-0239), however, I don't get any output |
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> when i |
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> click and/or wiggle the mouse. |
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> |
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> I've seen in other forums, people getting this mouse to work with |
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> bluetooth |
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> on ubuntu and fedora. Claims that it works out of the box over |
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> bluetooth. |
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> |
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> I'm curious if any gentoo users have been able to successfully use |
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> this |
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> device over a bluetooth adapter, and if so, what bluetooth adapter |
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> you're |
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> using, what kernel you're running, what modules are loaded, and if |
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> there |
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> were any tweaks you had to make after pairing your mouse to get it to |
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> work |
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> properly. |
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> |
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> -everything- works when i use the unified reciever, even the weird |
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> thumb |
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> button and horizontal scrolling. Nothing works, other than pairing |
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> and |
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> connecting/disconnecting, over bluetooth. |
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> |
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> Thanks in advance! |
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> |
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> -- |
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> Ian Savoy |
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> LoTeK Systems |
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Hi Ian, |
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I have the MX Anywhere 2 mouse working over bluetooth flawlessly. I |
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believe they use the exact same Bluetooth hardware. However, it took me |
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quite a lot of time to get it to work. What follows may not be a |
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complete list of things to check :) |
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The mouse doesn't work with >bluez-5.25 and <bluez-5.34. IOW, I had to |
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mask 5.32 and 5.33 with which it didn't work and use 5.25. Recently |
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5.34 appeared in portage and it works. With the broken version there |
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would be an error message in syslog. You can get more error messages in |
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syslog though and some of them don't matter for using the mouse. |
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I didn't have the UHID config option (IIRC, I hope it was this one) in |
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my kernel. Again, there was an error message in syslog that was not |
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very clear to me, mixed with a few other error messages. |
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I've been fighting a bit with the ucode for my BT adapter to be loaded, |
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it seemed the pairing would work even without it but the mouse wouldn't |
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work. |
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My kernel is 4.0.5-gentoo and my bluetooth is Intel Wireless Bluetooth |
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7260. I compile everything into the kernel, so I can't tell you the |
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modules. |
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If you don't get it to work after checking the above, try posting the |
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relevant messages from your syslog. |
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cheers, |
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Lukas |
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PS: For completeness, I had to disable USB power management for the |
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bluetooth adapter, otherwise I'd get a delay before the mouse would |
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work again after not using it for more than ~10 seconds. |