bluetooth mouse (bthidd errors)

Maksim Yevmenkin maksim.yevmenkin at savvis.net
Tue May 10 12:24:56 PDT 2005


Eric,

>>> I'm trying to get a bluetooth mouse working.  When I run bthidd, I 
>>> see this in my /var/log/messages:
>>>
>>> bthidd[30447]: Could not open /dev/vkbdctl. No such file or directory 
>>> (2)
>>>
>>> Any hints?  I'm running current as of about a week ago.
>>
>> # kldload vkbd
>>
>> but do not get any ideas :) bluetooth keyboard is not going to work.
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply!  That did the trick!  Maybe a little hint in 
> the error output would help.  Like:
> 
> bthidd[30447]: Could not open /dev/vkbdctl. No such file or directory 
> (2). Did you load vkbd?

well, may be. bthid(8) could just load it automatically. i will fix it 
in the future :)

> Also - my mouse buttons (2/3) are swapped.  I see a couple brief 
> mentions about it being a mouse bluetooth issue - but how do I fix it?

patch by Vladimir Grebenschikov " vova at fbsd dot ru "

--- usr.sbin/bluetooth/bthidd/hid.c.orig	Sun Dec 26 11:32:30 2004
+++ usr.sbin/bluetooth/bthidd/hid.c	Tue Dec 21 13:16:20 2004
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@
  		mi.u.data.x = mouse_x;
  		mi.u.data.y = mouse_y;
  		mi.u.data.z = mouse_z;
-		mi.u.data.buttons = mouse_butt;
+		mi.u.data.buttons = (mouse_butt & (~0x6)) | ((mouse_butt & 0x2) << 1) 
  | ((mouse_butt & 0x4) >> 1);

  		if (ioctl(s->srv->cons, CONS_MOUSECTL, &mi) < 0)
  			syslog(LOG_ERR, "Could not process mouse events from " \

thanks,
max


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