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Since I first bought my Logitech MX5000 combo it has never worked correctly on Ubuntu (back to 6.06 maybe…) after booting. The keyboard would work perfectly in the BIOS and even in GRUB, but as soon as I reached the (GUI) log-in screen my MX5000 would become unresponsive until I disconnected the USB Bluetooth receiver and plugged it back in. As you could imagine, quite tedious on every boot.

After doing a bit of research, this appears to be a fairly common issue. One suggestion that did work for me was to remove the bluez-* packages, but apparently there is the side effect of other Bluetooth devices no longer working. This isn’t an issue for me, so it’ll keep me happy until a real fix is in place.

Drop the following into your CLI if you’re having the same issue…
sudo apt-get remove bluez-cups bluez-pcmcia-support bluez-pin bluez-utils

Having had my Logitech Harmony 525 for a couple of months I could never understand why it changed the channels on my TV by only scrolling downwards and looping around the menu, even if I wanted to change to a channel directly above the one currently selected. Mental!

There are no options to configure this on the online configuration process, so after contacting Logitech technical support, a few days later they got back to me having made a “behind the scenes” change to my config file. My remote now scrolls up and down to scroll to my required channel using the shortest direction – Apparently this is something they have to manually add to peoples account. Why? I don’t know…