I think all these problems on Apple based system are caused by a race condition in the startup and init routines for the Bluetooth adapter. I am pretty sure that I finally fixed this. At least my Quad G5 running Edgy now has no problems anymore.
The main problem was that the command for setting the scan mode failed. And this means that the adapter was available, but neither page scan nor page inquiry were set. This results in a non-connectable and non- discoverable Bluetooth adapter. However HID mice and keyboards wanna reconnect to the adapter and if it is in non-connectable mode (page scan off) then they simply can't. This race condition was present on all architectures, but for some strange reason only the Apple machines with the HID proxy adapters suffered from it. Anyhow this has been fixed with the bluez-utils-3.9 release and for Feisty it might be a good idea to simply sync with the new upstream source. -- Bluetooth Mouse and Keyboard Broken in Dapper/Edgy/Feisty https://launchpad.net/bugs/32415 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
