I've updated my bthid daemon with some tweaks that
may or may not have been necessary to get the new
Apple Bluetooth keyboard to work, and a new "-p"
option that enables regular pinging after inactivity,
which appears to be the key to keeping the Microsoft
keyboard from going to sleep so hard that it needs
to be power-cycled.  Michal Semler suggested the
technique, and I wish that I had thought of it before
I broke the keyboard's battery compartment cover from
overuse.

The code is linked to http://klausler.com/msbtkb-linux.html,
a web page that badly needs revamping, I know.

I'm *very* happy with the new Apple keyboard, by the way.
It's affordable, solidly built, has an ON/OFF switch (!), and
is much more amenable to the Dvorak layout.  But I still prefer
the 5-button Microsoft mouse with its scroll wheel to Apple's
one-button Bluetooth mouse.

The Microsoft and Apple offerings remain the only Bluetooth
keyboards of commercial availability known to me.  Has anyone
seen another?

-- 
Peter Klausler, Sr. Principal Engineer, Cray Inc.           ',.PY FGCRL
pmk@cray.com, peter@klausler.com, http://klausler.com       AOEUI DHTNS
O/S kernel, compilers, simulation, and ISA design           ;QJKX BMWVZ


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