bluetooth mouse (bthidd errors)

Maksim Yevmenkin maksim.yevmenkin at savvis.net
Tue May 10 15:41:27 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 "
>>

[...]

> Thanks!  Is this or another patch going to be committed to fix this 
> permanently?  Just curious..

yes. it appears (but i'm not 100% sure) that our mouse code uses "1 3 2" 
button encoding (left middle right), and usb hid seems to use "1 2 3" 
button encoding. it seems like generic mouse button mapping code 
(similar to moused(8)) would be nice to have.

> Also - for those who don't want to patch their systems, this works fine 
> in X:
> 
> xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 3 2 4 5 6 7"

yes, but this does not work on console (like you said it only works in X).

thanks,
max


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