Re: how to get bluetooth pc105 keyboards to work with N900
 

What if you reboot now. You should be able to connect to the keyboard without stopping and starting bluetoothd. And you shouldn't need to repair. And you shouldn't need to click on connect. All you should need to do is turn on the external keyboard and press a (few) key(s) on the external keyboard. It should then connect (after a few seconds). The bluetooth symbol on the top of the screen should turn from white to blue. And you should be able to type. Then you can issue the setxkbmap command (and type a key on the internal keyboard) and it should work.

Can you verify this?

Re: how to get bluetooth pc105 keyboards to work with N900
 

Nope, it became unable to connect after reboot. And I can´t get it back in.

Modules hid and hidp have also disappeared.

Update:
Hang on I am going to reflash. I might have screwed this up when I tried to restore my backup settings and programs. Both those operations failed, but something might have changed nevertheless.

Re: how to get bluetooth pc105 keyboards to work with N900
 

What if after you upgrade to 51 you delete the existing entry for the keyboard in the bluetooth menu and then repair? I vaguely remember some post to the effect that the format of the bluetooth connection database has changed. But I can't find the post now and I may misremember.

The hid and hidp modules disappearing is a symptom, not a cause. The modules should be installed automatically by the bluetooth demon. And for reasons that I don't understand, the bluetooth demon is not starting up configured to do keyboard input.

Re: how to get bluetooth pc105 keyboards to work with N900
 

I don´t get it in when I do that. In fact I am afraid that trying to re-pair or reinstall it may be what breaks the link so to speak.

In other words I am starting to believe that the keyboard only works because it´s done so before. But when you re-pair it you break the old link and start at the beginning.

Update:
Just to let you know I am now upgrading again from week 46 to week 51.

Re: how to get bluetooth pc105 keyboards to work with N900
 

In order to get to these differences, I've attached my /etc/main.conf (renamed to "main.txt" to keep the attachment facility happy) file and the output of "lsmod" and of "ps aux" in files "lsmod.txt" and "ps.txt", respectively. I ran "ps" and "lsmod" after pairing my keyboard but not getting a new device according to hildon-im-xkbtool. Can you compare these to what you get after successfully connecting up with the keyboard, or post your main.conf, kernel module and process lists?

Best regards, Jan

Re: how to get bluetooth pc105 keyboards to work with N900
 

More important than the output of lsmod and ps is to see the contents of
/etc/event.d/bluetooth-sysinfo
and
/etc/event.d/bluetoothd
Also do an ls -l on them.

Re: how to get bluetooth pc105 keyboards to work with N900
 

Ok guys, Jan and Jeff/Jeffrey

This may be the most stupid question ever.

But what is the easiest was to get a log like this out of X-terminal?

The phone is about to restart after the week 46 to 51 OTA update.

Best wishes,
Oli

Re: how to get bluetooth pc105 keyboards to work with N900
 

Could you also do an ls -l /usr/sbin/bluetoothd on 51.

Re: how to get bluetooth pc105 keyboards to work with N900
 

Redirect as much as you can to files. The rest, cut and paste into vi.
A more powerful way is to install emacs and run in a shell buffer then save it as a file.

Re: how to get bluetooth pc105 keyboards to work with N900
 

Your /etc/bluetooth/main.conf is identical to mine except for a comment.