How can I disable my internal Bluetooth adapter and use a USB one?
Hi! My Bluetooth on my device is having issues so I am considering buying a USB Bluetooth adapter. Is it possible to disable the internal Bluetooth adapter and use an external one?
Thanks!
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probably there is an option for that on the bios, or just using the keyboard combination for your laptop, like fn+whatever, that should turn it off
idk for gamemode, but for desktop you can autorun a script to disable one of the controllers (the DE might freak out and think bluetooth is disabled when you try to pair stuff, just ignore the prompt to "enable" pairing/bluetooth since the 2nd controller is still active)
having 2 bluetooth controllers is apparently something nobody tests for.
here is the script i use to turn off the bluetooth controller i use for windows VMs
the selecting the 2nd controller as default almost never works but i do it anyway until i can find a better way.
you can get the bluetooth mac address with
bluetoothctl listThanks! Going to try this, just picked up the USB adapter
yeah sadly i have no idea if this will work if you make it a service and it runs in gamemode session.
as i believe gamemode is hard coded for the first available BT controller
Found out my friend disabled Bluetooth in settings:
Bluetooth > Configure Bluetooth > Choose whichever device is the built-in one and disable it 👍
yeah i noticed that one isnt permanent (at least in kde)
hence the script i made 🙂
Frick
but having that script run on startup disables it automatically each time i log into the desktop at least
@HikariKnight rfkill works and persists on reboot and in gamescope
ok