Can't get bluetooth mouse to work in Fedora 8
Donald Reader
fc-list at reader.ws
Thu Mar 6 20:12:28 UTC 2008
On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 09:50 -0800, Mike Iglesias wrote:
> I just got a Dell XPS M1330 laptop, and have set it up as a dual boot with
> Vista and Fedora 8. I have a bluetooth Dell Travel Mouse, and it works with
> Vista, but I can't get it to work with Fedora.
>
> When I turn the mouse on, there's no indication that Fedora has seen the mouse
> so I right clicked on the bluetooth icon in the upper panel and then selected
> "Browse Device". The display shows "Dell BT Travel Mouse" and indicates that
> it's a mouse. I select that and then click connect. I get this in a window:
>
> Couldn't display "obex://[mac addr of mouse]".
> Check if the service is available.
>
> The input service is running for bluetooth, so I'm not sure what "service"
> needs to be available. Is there something I should look for to make this
> mouse work?
>
>
> --
> Mike Iglesias Email: iglesias at uci.edu
> University of California, Irvine phone: 949-824-6926
> Network & Academic Computing Services FAX: 949-824-2270
>
More than likely I am just putting my foot in my mouth
like usual when I try and help but you may need to
install openobx in order to get it to work.
Maybe it will help
Donald Reader
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