Logitech MX5000 Bluetooth Mouse and Keyboard Support
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I am running OpenSuse 10.2 with KDE Desktop. KbluetoothD is a KDE program. It puts a little bluetooth symbol that looks like the B for bluetooth that you get in windows, but it uses the KDE "K".
In order to get it to work as a modem, you have to create a device called /dev/rfcomm0 and edit some configuration files.
I can get it to work as a bluetooth modem using the USB dongle that comes with my MX5000 Keyboard / MX1000 Mouse combo.
Yes, if you disable bluetooth or if you remove the dongle and reinsert it into your usb port, this disconnects it from the Linux bluetooth drivers and then it will function as a basic keyboard/mouse without any special keys. I don't know about you guys but I find this pointless, since I am using the MX5000 bluetooth dongle, It is more useful as a bluetooth modem than a keyboard. Shouldn't have to muck around with it to get it to work. The funny thing is, KbluetoothD will recognize the keyboard and mouse as a bluetooth device, but won't move the mouse pointer or relay any keystrokes to the operating system. I am going to guess that it is an issue with xorg.conf / Sax2, because, KbluetoothD pops up a dialog to let me know that it has detected the mouse and or keyboard and my VX8100 cell phone, when I activate modem2 from Kinternet.
Anyway, if anyone ever figures out how to get the MX5000/MX1000 to work in linux like it does in Windows, let me know. I am all for open source, but this is yet another reason why I have a dual boot setup, because at least windows gets it's drivers working out of the box.(for the most part at least).
This is odd. Before the driver is loaded, the Keyboard and Mouse look to the system as regular direct USB attached devices. They work in BIOS, DOS and others as long as the BIOS USB Keyboard or legacy USB is enabled. I guess once linux loads it's BT driver and dorks with the dongle, it's miss-handling something unique to this particular dongle and turning off the USB Keyboard/Mouse support and going pure BT. I would think that winders would have an issue of the disappearing act also is this was what it normally did. Ths BT detection that Linux is seeing might the path the MX5000 uses for LCD and special buttons/sliders support.
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