Fresh Install 21.1 Cinnamon - Bluetooth Mouse Not Working?

[JeZxLee]

Hi,

I just did a fresh install of Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon 64Bit onto an older desktop.
Desktop has an ASUS USB Bluetooth 5.0 adapter which seems to be working.
Only issue is my Bluetooth Microsoft mouse is not working?
The mouse is paired in the Bluetooth app(icon on lower-right of screen).
When I paired the mouse to the Bluetooth, it did work for a few minutes?

Any ideas?
Thanks!

Jesse

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jlp@optimusprime:~$ inxi -Fxxxrz
System:
  Kernel: 5.15.0-58-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.3.0
    Desktop: Cinnamon 5.6.7 tk: GTK 3.24.33 wm: muffin vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0
    Distro: Linux Mint 21.1 Vera base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: N/A v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 3 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Gigabyte model: 970A-DS3P serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: American Megatrends v: FD date: 02/26/2016
CPU:
  Info: 8-core model: AMD FX-8320 bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled
    arch: Piledriver rev: 0 cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 8 MiB L3: 8 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2042 high: 3811 min/max: 1400/3500 boost: enabled
    cores: 1: 3811 2: 3740 3: 1403 4: 1405 5: 1405 6: 1405 7: 1658 8: 1509
    bogomips: 56254
  Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nvidia
    v: 525.78.01 pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none
    off: HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, DVI-I-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:13c2 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 type: USB
    driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-1:2 chip-ID: 046d:082d
    class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.3 driver: X: loaded: nvidia
    unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa gpu: nvidia display-ID: :0
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 92 s-size: 530x301mm (20.9x11.9")
    s-diag: 610mm (24")
  Monitor-1: HDMI-0 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 93
    size: 527x296mm (20.7x11.7") diag: 604mm (23.8")
  OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970/PCIe/SSE2
    v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 525.78.01 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD SBx00 Azalia vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:14.2 chip-ID: 1002:4383 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA GM204 High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0fbb class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: Logitech HD Pro Webcam C920 type: USB
    driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus-ID: 3-1:2 chip-ID: 046d:082d
    class-ID: 0102 serial: <filter>
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-58-generic running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
    port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie:
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:422b class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp4s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-3: Realtek RTL8169 PCI Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169 v: kernel
    port: c000 bus-ID: 05:06.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8169 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp5s6 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: ASUSTek ASUS USB-BT500 type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 5-2:2 chip-ID: 0b05:190e class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 4.55 TiB used: 146.63 GiB (3.1%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Crucial model: CT1000MX500SSD1 size: 931.51 GiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 045 scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST4000DX005-3GH101 size: 3.64 TiB
    speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: FC01 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 912.73 GiB used: 146.18 GiB (16.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-1
    mapped: vgmint-root
  ID-2: /boot size: 1.61 GiB used: 447.9 MiB (27.2%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sda2
  ID-3: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 5.2 MiB (1.0%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 976 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
    dev: /dev/dm-2 mapped: vgmint-swap_1
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 20.4 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 39 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 27%
Repos:
  Packages: 2865 apt: 2850 flatpak: 15
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64] https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/insync.list
    1: deb http://apt.insync.io/mint vera non-free contrib
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
    1: deb http://mirror.team-cymru.com/mint-packages vera main upstream import backport
    2: deb http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
    3: deb http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
    4: deb http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
    5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype-stable.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.skype.com/deb stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list
    1: deb [arch=amd64,arm64,armhf] http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq-jammy.sources
    1: deb [arch=amd64 i386] https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu jammy main
Info:
  Processes: 414 Uptime: 14h 52m wakeups: 0 Memory: 31.31 GiB
  used: 9.54 GiB (30.5%) Init: systemd v: 249 runlevel: 5 Compilers:
  gcc: 11.3.0 alt: 11 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: gnome-terminal
  inxi: 3.3.13
jlp@optimusprime:~$ 

[kato181]

Try this..

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In terminal type in the following...
bluetoothctl
It should respond with the following...
Agent registered.

It should be now in root..
[bluetooth]#
Type in..
scan on
Should result in..
Discovery started
It should return with..
[New] Device (eg) F0:65:DD:67:55:09 Name of bluetooth mouse

Then type..
pair F0:65:DD:67:55:09
The results should say..
Pairing Successful

Then type..
connect F0:56:DD:67:55:09
The results should say..
Connection Successful.

Then type...
trust F0:65:DD:67::55:09
They result should say..
Trust succeeded

[khentiamentiu]

kato181 Thanks much for your helpful reply! This worked just fine on my Lenovo 11e gen 6 laptop running Linux Mint 21.1 Mate. However, I had no luck with the same set of bluetoothctl commands on my Linux Surface Pro 9 running Linux Mint 21.1 Mate. My Logi M585 mouse connected, but then after a few commands on the Desktop, dropped the connection. Other bluetooth mice did not connect at all. FYI, I've put in a help request on the linux-surface github, but no reply so far.

Here was the last of several pair and connect commands entered after my M585 mouse stopped working:

[M585/M590]# connect CF:22:BE:83:F2:F8
Attempting to connect to CF:22:BE:83:F2:F8
Connection successful
[M585/M590]# trust CF:22:BE:83:F2:F8
[CHG] Device CF:22:BE:83:F2:F8 Trusted: yes
Changing CF:22:BE:83:F2:F8 trust succeeded

And here is the output of inxi -Fxxxrz from my surface pro 9:

System:
Kernel: 6.3.7-surface x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.4.0
Desktop: MATE 1.26.0 info: mate-panel wm: marco 1.26.0 dm: LightDM 1.30.0
Distro: Linux Mint 21.1 Vera base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
Type: Kvm System: Microsoft product: Surface Pro 9
v: 124I:00093T:000M:0000000D:0B:11F:1C:04P:01Y:0U:02 serial: <filter>
Chassis: type: 1 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Microsoft model: Surface Pro 9 serial: <filter> UEFI: Microsoft
v: 9.12.143 date: 10/07/2022
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 49.0 Wh (100.0%) condition: 49.0/46.5 Wh (105.4%)
volts: 8.3 min: 7.6 model: DYN 1163984018 type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
status: Not charging cycles: 11
CPU:
Info: 10-core (2-mt/8-st) model: 12th Gen Intel Core i5-1235U bits: 64
type: MST AMCP smt: enabled arch: Alder Lake rev: 4 cache: L1: 928 KiB
L2: 6.5 MiB L3: 12 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2231 high: 2500 min/max: 400/4400:3300 volts: 0.8 V
ext-clock: 100 MHz cores: 1: 2500 2: 2500 3: 811 4: 2500 5: 2500 6: 2500
7: 2500 8: 2500 9: 963 10: 2500 11: 2500 12: 2500 bogomips: 59904
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel vendor: Microsoft driver: i915 v: kernel ports:
active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0
chip-ID: 8086:46a8 class-ID: 0300
Display: server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 compositor: marco v: 1.26.0 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 display-ID: :0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2880x1920 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 762x508mm (30.0x20.0")
s-diag: 916mm (36.1")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: LG serial: <filter> res: 2880x1920 hz: 60
dpi: 267 size: 274x183mm (10.8x7.2") diag: 329mm (13") modes: 2880x1920
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel Graphics (ADL GT2)
v: 4.6 Mesa 22.2.5-0ubuntu0.1~22.04.3 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel driver: N/A bus-ID: 00:05.0 chip-ID: 8086:465d
class-ID: 0480
Device-2: Intel Alder Lake PCH-P High Definition Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:51c8
class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k6.3.7-surface running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-P PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:51f0 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 3-10:2
chip-ID: 8087:0033 class-ID: e001
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.86 TiB used: 175.26 GiB (9.2%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital
model: WD PC SN740 SDDPTQE-2T00 size: 1.86 TiB speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4
type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 73110000 temp: 29.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 1.1 TiB used: 175.22 GiB (15.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 258.9 MiB used: 35.5 MiB (13.7%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
file: /swapfile
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 26.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
Packages: apt: 2223
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/linux-surface.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] https://pkg.surfacelinux.com/debian release main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com vera main upstream import backport
2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy main restricted universe multiverse
3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ jammy-security main restricted universe multiverse
Info:
Processes: 301 Uptime: 23m wakeups: 10 Memory: 15.45 GiB
used: 1.95 GiB (12.6%) Init: systemd v: 249 runlevel: 5 Compilers:
gcc: 11.3.0 alt: 11/12 Shell: Bash (sudo) v: 5.1.16
running-in: mate-terminal inxi: 3.3.13