Bluetooth and power stuff

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon May 1 10:37:20 PDT 2006


Richard Hughes (hughsient at gmail.com) said: 
> Bluetooth devices can be powered up and down using acpi (with a format
> depending on your machine vendor):
> 
> echo disable >/proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth;
> echo enable >/proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth;
> 
> Is this something we should add to hal as EnableBluetooth() and
> DisableBluetooth() power methods?

You probably want *something* to handle it, as loading the ACPI module
on IBM actively disables the keyboard bluetooth hotkeys.

Bill


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