Thread: [ANNOUNCE] External Keyboard Support - extkbd
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freemangordon is offline freemangordon
2011-03-16 , 18:26
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Originally Posted by impeham View Post
well, it didn't work - the dialog that asks if i should allow the connection to the PS3 controller (but pressing yes/no don't work - i t just pops up back again with the same dialog).
i think my bluetooth devices database should be clean since i reflashed just ~a week ago and haven't added any new device except for my laptop, the BT keyboard, mouse and the DS3.

i have good will to continue of course - i'm a software engineer myself (C++, C#) so i know you are the hard worker from the two of us
finally, i would really really like to see this resolved since i intend to use all 3 devices at the same time - so go ahead - feel free to send me my daily tasks - just please don't do anything that might force me to reflash cause this would mean long time of installations and configurations...

Thanks for the help man - i mean it.
OK, try the attached one :
1. Install it
2. in xterm as root execute sixauth in the same way as before. And to make sure that you are providing correct bluetooth address of your sixaxis do cat /var/lib/bluetooth/XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:X/names and wrote MAC which is on the left of "PLAYSTATION(R)3 Controller". This is your sixaxis bluetooth address. And XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX stands for bluetooth address of your n900. You can get it from Settings->About

This one will restart bluetooth for you, you don't need to do it. And there is error reporting as well.

And if the above still don't work I will eat my boots (as soon as I get ) .

If you still have troubles and the above don't work you can try also:

in xterm as root
1. stop bluetoothd
2. cd /var/lib/bluetooth
3. mv XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX bak
where XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX stands for bluetooth address of your n900
4. start bluetoothd
5. /opt/usr/bin/sixauth [sisaxis bt address]

and try again. Have in mind that with above you will lose pairing with any bluetooth devices you have besides sixaxis, so you will have to re-pair them lately (if sixaxis works). And of course you can always restore files from bak directory.


If sixaxis still don't work please zip both bak and newly created XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX directories from /var/lib/bluetooth and attach them here.
Attached Files
File Type: deb sixauth_0.0.2_armel.deb (23.3 KB, 105 views)
Last edited by freemangordon; 2011-03-16 at 18:32. Reason: instructions fixed