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[David Teirney <launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am using MythBuntu Intrepid. The standard Bluetooth Wizard setup my
bluetooth mouse fine, but then for no reason at all the mouse just
stopped working. I'm assuming it disconnected due to inactivity as this
behavior was described earlier in the ticket.

Clicking repeatedly on the mouse, turning off and on didn't help any.

Trying to reconnect through the Bluetooth Wizard just stated that
"Pairing Failed". So, after some frustration and googling I found this
ticket.

I have just installed "bluez-compat" and run "sudo hidd --search". The
mouse was found, connected and now seems to be working fine.

I am disappointed that something as mainstream as using a bluetooth
mouse doesn't work robustly out-of-the-box in the latest and greatest
release of Ubuntu.

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[Intrepid] New Bluetooth Wizard fails to pair with devices: reintroduce hidd
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/281580
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Status in Mactel Support: Invalid
Status in “bluez” source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released

Bug description:
Binary package hint: bluez

With the latest updates to Intrepid testing, the new bluetooth device setup wizard (which is an excellent improvement over the previous setup methods) fails to pair with my Apple Keyboard (pre-aluminum, broadcom based). No debug information or error messages are given other than "failed to pair".

Further making this an issue is the fact that the recent bluetooth updates also removed the hidd binary from Ubuntu (again).

This method seems to be the only thing that works for Apple Bluetooth Keyboards recently:
http://idebian.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/manage-hid-bluetooth-devices-in-linux/

Notice that it requires hci to be reset, but cannot use hid2hci to do this. The keyboard was working fine previous to the update using the method in the above link.

Removing reliable and useful software from the repos that can be useful for workarounds when new software is introduced is not a good idea. The hidd binary has been removed several times from Ubuntu and each time it has been requested that it is put back. Please make this binary available in the repos via other means so that it can be used as a fallback in the future.