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Date:      Sun, 4 Nov 2007 14:50:07 -0700
From:      "Maksim Yevmenkin" <maksim.yevmenkin@gmail.com>
To:        "Eric Millbrandt" <emillbrandt@coldhaus.com>
Cc:        freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bluetooth mouse/keyboard blues
Message-ID:  <bb4a86c70711041350q631d75acg5c11c2536dcc133b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <472E3D67.3020706@coldhaus.com>
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On 11/4/07, Eric Millbrandt <emillbrandt@coldhaus.com> wrote:
> Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:
> > Eric,
> >
> > i just tried apple keyboard with
> >
> > FreeBSD ant.private.org 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #4: Wed Sep 12
> > 20:40:41 PDT 2007
> > root@ant.private.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> >
> > and it works just fine. granted, it almost a couple month old system,
> > but bthidd(8) code has not changed in a while, so it still should
> > work.  i'm cvsup'ing RELENG_7 and will build it later.
> >
> > thanks,
> > max
> >
> >
> Actually the keyboard is one of the new apple wireless keyboards, model
> A1255.  Apparently there was an older model of the same name.

i have older "thick white" apple bluetooth keyboard. i do not think
your keyboard would be that different

> The mouse is a "Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000".  Neither of
> these need any special windows drivers.  Does each new device need to be
> supported in bthidd?

bthidd should support any bluetooth keyboard and/or mouse. it may not
support, for example, extra keys or buttons, but generic set of
keys/buttons should work.

thanks,
max



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