[TriLUG] bluetooth mouse goes unconcious if you walk away

Joseph Mack NA3T jmack at wm7d.net
Mon Sep 17 12:44:04 EDT 2012


On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Reed, Reginald wrote:

> My assumption is that this is highly mouse dependent. 
> The bulk of my Bluetooth mouse experience has been with OS 
> X and a Dell Bluetooth travel mouse.  The mouse does go to 
> sleep when not in use for some period of time, but moving 
> the mouse wakes it up and OS X happily chugs along.

I wonder if OS X is polling a mouse after it parks.

>
> *side note* I've never had consistent luck with Bluetooth 
> on windows, the combination of drivers/Bluetooth stacks 
> has never worked well, even on Thinkpads with factory 
> installed hardware.

if it doesn't work on windows, then it will probably be a 
bit of work to get it running under linux

Thanks Joe

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