HIDD and Bluetooth

[m.e.newby]

I have a PS2 keyboard and mouse and no blue tooth devices. The HIDD error came up in verbose mode on boot. I disabled it on start up and enabled it at a later date. First few boots there was no error message then it came back again!!!!!!!!

[Neal ManBear]

Eventually we'll figure it out.

[MaddogF16]

Finally seen the error and it was "before" enabling the keyboard and mouse?

[Neal ManBear]

I do not yet know the cause of the error.
My keyboard is enabled before the error. If I set bluetooth to not load on boot, the error is gone - on my Dell box. On my Acer laptop, dis-enabling bluetooth does not stop the error - HIDD must be set to not load on boot.

I'm puzzled by this.

[MaddogF16]

I just haven't had time to take a look at the scripts that work these two. Maybe there's a way to split one off to a different channel.


Maddog

[Neal ManBear]

It would be great, if there is.

[CtrlAltDel]

I've found all my bluetooth problems were resolved when i compiled the 2.6.28.10 kernel..

Bluetooth was hit and miss up till then for me..  Sometimes it worked, sometimes not..



CtrlAltDel

[travisN000]

From Tex:

2.6.27.21 is the last kernel that will compile on the existing pclos platform. Anything after that requires an updated gcc compiler and glibc libraries.

..I know there was work on this, maybe these are updated now??  The kernel mentioned is in testing last I checked.

[CtrlAltDel]

Hi Travis..

Kernels 2.6.28.4 & 2.6.28.10 compiled fine for me..  the latter being the best of the two (on my hardware anyway)

Cheers,


CtrlAltDel

[Leo David Orionis]

Hello, I just encountered the HIDD problem and my search led me here.  As background, I'm using dvd::rip to copy my DVDs to my hard disks so that I can file away the DVDs and watch them on my computer whenever I want to.  All was going fine until I tried to rip a set of "La Femme Nikita" Second Season DVDs, a Japanese box set.  My computer couldn't read them.  When I restarted the computer, in the verbose messages was one about "hidd can't read ... address already in use."  Then the computer shut down and tried to start up again.  And again.  And again.  Finally reinstalled the system and the message went away.

Happened again when I started on a complete set of "The Adventures of Robin Hood" from a company called Golden DVD.  Computer again worked fine after it couldn't read the DVDs, but when I shut it down, here's the message again on startup.  I'm writing this from Live CD, as I haven't re-installed yet.

I have a wireless modem on my mother board, not using it and firewall protects it as well as the ethernet modem I use with my cable service.  I have an IDE DVD drive and a 500-GB IDE hard disk; the other 6 hard disks are all SATA.  My keyboard is PS2.  I have a USB mouse, USB printer (HP DeskJet 812C), and a USB scanner (HP ScanJet 4200C).

Hope this information helps someone figure what's going on!

[dark]

I got the message in verbose mode some kind of 'hidd can't start ...  already in use and start failed'. Using notebook with usb mouse and my /home is in usb attached hdd. Mouse and /home are working normaly, not using bloetooth. Maybe this will help for brainers to figure out why we get this hidd start failure.

[Neal ManBear]

If you're not using bluetooth, remove it from start on boot in PCC > System > System services. HIDD will start fine, if bluetooth is disabled from starting on boot.