[BRLTTY] The bluetooth service seems to be running

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on 2011/10/03 at 14:52 -0400]

>According to ps -e there are two instances of bluetoothd-serv, tasks
>6463 and 6464. That should mean it's running. 

Does hciconfig say that the hci0 interface is up and that it has a Bluetooth 
device address?

Assuming the answer is yes, you probably still need to pair the device with the 
host.

>Ubuntu calls this release "longterm support" and I update it most days, but 
>the bluetooth obviously has never been tested.

I'm sure they, as well as plenty of other users, have. I don't think there's 
any cause for concern in this area.

>I did disable the gdm service because I use the console only and Orca
>wasn't working well enough for me to mess around with (probably my
>understanding was incomplete). Last time I tried turning gdm on to do
>an upgrade it didn't wok; don't remember any details.

Here's where you may have a bit of a problem. Unfortunately, there's no command 
line interface (that I'm aware of) for pairing a Bluetooth device. It has to be 
done within the graphical environment.

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