** Description changed:
BlueZ 4.x resolves two regressions that are seen in the 3.x stack on
Intrepid.
Regressions solved
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* Keyboards aren't able to pair in the UI.
- The combination of bluez-utils 3.36 and the btusb kernel module seems to
be causing problems when pairing bluetooth keyboards. Reverting to an earlier
release of bluez-utils is not a good solution as a lot of bugs were fixed by
coming up to 3.36.
* Broken services tab
- In the 3.x stack, the services tab is unfortunately the only way to
activate new devices.
- This is fixed in bluez-gnome 0.28 or anything later. However you need to
switch to a package in the 1.x series when using the Bluez 4.x stack.
Newer features
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The 4.x version brings an additional UI element, a pairing wizard. This may
cause problems for documentation teams, but considering the previous UI was not
intuitive, there likely hasn't been a lot of documentation on it.
Testing
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The entire stack that needs to be changed for this bug is available on the
Bluetooth team testing PPA at http://launchpad.net/~bluetooth/+archive .
* Builds are all verified functional for i386, amd64, lpia
* These builds have all been test installed by adding the PPA to an up to
date Intrepid and doing a dist-upgrade.
- * Functionality has been verified for keyboards, mice, OBEX browsing, OBEX
sending, and DUN via rfcomm.
+ * Functionality has been verified for keyboards, mice using both Rocketfish
& Apple keyboards and mice.
+ * Functionality has been verified for OBEX browsing, OBEX sending, and DUN
via rfcomm on a Blackberry 8130.
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Look into switching to bluez 4.x
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/274950
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