Bluetooth mouse won't auto-connect

[Tom Horsley]

On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:06:44 -0430
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> Do I have to keep running 'su' to connect my mouse?

Perhaps sticking the hidd command in /etc/rc.local would
work?

I haven't tried bluetooth in a while, but the last time
I fooled with it to try and get a mouse/keyboard combo
device to work, I came to the conclusion that the great
bluetooth rewrite which was happening at the time was
intended to support nothing except temporarily connecting
to bluetooth phones to transfer data files. I was never
able to get a boot time "permanent" bluetooth connection
to work. (Fortunately I eventually was able to run the
bluetooth dongle in USB mode to make everything look like
a USB keyboard and mouse, which even worked in the BIOS).