[gentoo-user] MX Master mouse on bluetooth

[gentoo-user] MX Master mouse on bluetooth

[Ian Savoy]

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Hey all,

I splurged on a new mx master mouse a few weeks ago, and it's been working
fine using the unified receiver that is included with the mouse. However,
it's not the only bluetooth device i have, and it would be nice not to have
two easy-to-lose dongles stuck in my laptop at all times (not to mention
2/4 USB ports occupied).

The problem I have is that I can pair the mouse with my bluetooth adapter
just fine (BCM20702A0-19ff-0239), however, I don't get any output when i
click and/or wiggle the mouse.

I've seen in other forums, people getting this mouse to work with bluetooth
on ubuntu and fedora. Claims that it works out of the box over bluetooth.

I'm curious if any gentoo users have been able to successfully use this
device over a bluetooth adapter, and if so, what bluetooth adapter you're
using, what kernel you're running, what modules are loaded, and if there
were any tweaks you had to make after pairing your mouse to get it to work
properly.

-everything- works when i use the unified reciever, even the weird thumb
button and horizontal scrolling. Nothing works, other than pairing and
connecting/disconnecting, over bluetooth.

Thanks in advance!

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Ian Savoy
LoTeK Systems

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Re: [gentoo-user] MX Master mouse on bluetooth

[Fernando Rodriguez]

On Friday, September 04, 2015 1:42:21 PM Ian Savoy wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I splurged on a new mx master mouse a few weeks ago, and it's been working
> fine using the unified receiver that is included with the mouse. However,
> it's not the only bluetooth device i have, and it would be nice not to have
> two easy-to-lose dongles stuck in my laptop at all times (not to mention
> 2/4 USB ports occupied).
> 
> The problem I have is that I can pair the mouse with my bluetooth adapter
> just fine (BCM20702A0-19ff-0239), however, I don't get any output when i
> click and/or wiggle the mouse.
> 
> I've seen in other forums, people getting this mouse to work with bluetooth
> on ubuntu and fedora. Claims that it works out of the box over bluetooth.
> 
> I'm curious if any gentoo users have been able to successfully use this
> device over a bluetooth adapter, and if so, what bluetooth adapter you're
> using, what kernel you're running, what modules are loaded, and if there
> were any tweaks you had to make after pairing your mouse to get it to work
> properly.
> 
> -everything- works when i use the unified reciever, even the weird thumb
> button and horizontal scrolling. Nothing works, other than pairing and
> connecting/disconnecting, over bluetooth.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> --
> Ian Savoy
> LoTeK Systems

The way I avoid these issues it is to compile all usb/bluetooth/filesystems/etc 
drivers (except controllers and other non-removable stuff) as modules. It's not 
very gentooish and I've noticed that it does slow udev startup a bit but I 
want everything I plug in to just work without having to rebuild my kernel and 
figuring out the right modules.

-- 
Fernando Rodriguez

Re: [gentoo-user] MX Master mouse on bluetooth

[lukash]

On Fri, 2015-09-04 at 13:42 -0400, Ian Savoy wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I splurged on a new mx master mouse a few weeks ago, and it's been
> working
> fine using the unified receiver that is included with the mouse.
> However,
> it's not the only bluetooth device i have, and it would be nice not
> to have
> two easy-to-lose dongles stuck in my laptop at all times (not to
> mention
> 2/4 USB ports occupied).
> 
> The problem I have is that I can pair the mouse with my bluetooth
> adapter
> just fine (BCM20702A0-19ff-0239), however, I don't get any output
> when i
> click and/or wiggle the mouse.
> 
> I've seen in other forums, people getting this mouse to work with
> bluetooth
> on ubuntu and fedora. Claims that it works out of the box over
> bluetooth.
> 
> I'm curious if any gentoo users have been able to successfully use
> this
> device over a bluetooth adapter, and if so, what bluetooth adapter
> you're
> using, what kernel you're running, what modules are loaded, and if
> there
> were any tweaks you had to make after pairing your mouse to get it to
> work
> properly.
> 
> -everything- works when i use the unified reciever, even the weird
> thumb
> button and horizontal scrolling. Nothing works, other than pairing
> and
> connecting/disconnecting, over bluetooth.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> --
> Ian Savoy
> LoTeK Systems

Hi Ian,

I have the MX Anywhere 2 mouse working over bluetooth flawlessly. I
believe they use the exact same Bluetooth hardware. However, it took me
quite a lot of time to get it to work. What follows may not be a
complete list of things to check :)

The mouse doesn't work with >bluez-5.25 and <bluez-5.34. IOW, I had to
mask 5.32 and 5.33 with which it didn't work and use 5.25. Recently
5.34 appeared in portage and it works. With the broken version there
would be an error message in syslog. You can get more error messages in
syslog though and some of them don't matter for using the mouse.

I didn't have the UHID config option (IIRC, I hope it was this one) in
my kernel. Again, there was an error message in syslog that was not
very clear to me, mixed with a few other error messages.

I've been fighting a bit with the ucode for my BT adapter to be loaded,
it seemed the pairing would work even without it but the mouse wouldn't
work.

My kernel is 4.0.5-gentoo and my bluetooth is Intel Wireless Bluetooth
7260. I compile everything into the kernel, so I can't tell you the
modules.

If you don't get it to work after checking the above, try posting the
relevant messages from your syslog.

cheers,
Lukas

PS: For completeness, I had to disable USB power management for the
bluetooth adapter, otherwise I'd get a delay before the mouse would
work again after not using it for more than ~10 seconds.