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I have a Logitech diNovo for several years now and it really worked fine under windows. But I’ve switched to ubuntu on my desktop machine about one year ago. And I got the keyboard + mouse running via bluetooth after searching a lot about this topic (examples: here, here and here). But (re-)connecting did not work properly, I always had to use this command:
sudo hidd --search
And how do you type a command when your keyboard is not connected? Yes, you use another keyboard plugged via PS/2 and this sucks!

And now? When I ran this command for the first time with the new Ubuntu 8.04 everything worked fine

my hcid.conf
device 00:11:22:33:44:55 {
name "Logitech diNovo MediaPad";
auth enable;
encrypt enable;
}
device 00:12:34:56:78:90 {
name "Logitech diNovo Keyboard";
auth enable;
encrypt enable;
}
device AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF {
name "Logitech MX1000 Laser Mouse";
auth enable;
encrypt enable;
}

For me, it’s a well known problem: all these super live cds (e.g. Knoppix or like we have it today: Ubuntu) do not start as expected: X-Window always fails to set up everything correctly, but only on my pcs… Maybe it’s Dell’s fault?
After getting the console on my Inspiron 6400 I had to fet a new driver with sudo apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx, edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file, replace the Driver in the section “Device” from vesa to fglrx and restart the X-Window server with startx. Always funny, especially for beginners, right?
By the way: it’s a ATI Radeon Mobility X1400 as gpu.