Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 18:38:43 -0500 From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <Alex.Kovalenko@verizon.net> To: Maksim Yevmenkin <maksim.yevmenkin@savvis.net> Cc: freebsd-bluetooth@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: apple bluetooth keyboard Message-ID: <1141774723.753.9.camel@RabbitsDen> In-Reply-To: <440DCFF0.6090809@savvis.net> References: <440DCFF0.6090809@savvis.net>
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On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 10:24 -0800, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: > Dear Bluetooth Users, > > i now own apple bluetooth keyboard. i had a minute to spare and tried > bthidd(8) and bthidcontrol(8) with the most recent changes by Markus > Brueffer. <snip> > 2) for whatever reason, right shift does not work. both left and right > ctrl, alt and left shift work as expected It works on mine (-CURRENT from February 13). Does it work for you at all (e.g. Mac OS, Windows)? <snip> > everything else seems to be working just fine. <alt><tab> combination in Gnome does something odd -- window switch box disappears as soon as you release <tab> without releasing <alt>. I did not investigate it much further though. > another minor issue, which has nothing to do with, bthidd(8) or > bthidcontrol(8), is pairing procedure. it is not very user friendly, > because there is no indication as to when user should type pin code on > the keyboard. this can be addresses by teaching hcsecd(8) to use > external processes to obtain pin codes. hcsecd(8) could call external > process that will display dialog to the user and request pin code. I know it is ugly, but running hcidump and typing in PIN and Enter when you see PIN request going out and stalling did the trick ;) > now, when kbdmux(4) was fully integrated into -current and releng_6 it > should be much more easier to use bluetooth keyboards with freebsd. > thanks, > max Thank you very much for doing this work! -- Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)
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