A question on kernel messages and devices

[Freston]

Hi,

Recently I purchased myself a bluetooth mouse. Installing it was so easy, it took less than a minute. But it's causing problems I had not expected.

Because of the kernels ability to handle bluetooth connections, and because of the HUGE amount of output a mouse provides, the command <dmesg> now only shows mouse output. It's making debugging my system neigh impossible.

I wrote this script to activate my bluetooth mouse upon booth:

Freston:$ cat /etc/rc.d/rc.bluetoothmouse
#!/bin/bash
# Bluetoothmouse
# Attempt to enable Bluetooth mouse upon boot
# Boot with USB-Bluetooth inserted

# Defining variables
STICK=`lsusb | grep -c Broadcom`
MOUSE_ADDRESS=12:12:12:12:12:12

# Functions
startscript () {
if [ $STICK -gt 0 ] ; then
        hciconfig hci0 up ; echo 'Bluetooth adaptor up'
        echo 'Attempting to connect Bluetooth device... waiting'
        hidd --connect $MOUSE_ADDRESS
        CONNECTION_STATUS=`hidd --show | grep -c $MOUSE_ADDRESS`
        if [ $CONNECTION_STATUS -gt 0 ] ; then
                echo 'Mouse is up'
                exit 0
        else
                echo 'Connection failed, mouse not found'
                exit 1
        fi
else
        echo 'Bluetooth adaptor not present'
        exit 0
fi
}

stopscript () {
hidd --killall
}

# Actual work being done
if
        [ ! $1 ] ; then # assume user sanity, restart
        stopscript
        startscript
elif
        [ $1 = 'start' ] ; then
        startscript
elif
        [ $1 = 'restart' ] ; then
        stopscript
        startscript
elif
        [ $1 = 'stop' ] ; then
        stopscript
else
        echo "$1 is not a valid option, you can install $1 by running <vim $0> from the shell."
        exit 1
fi

It works like a charm, but I need a way to keep the mouse output from cluttering the output of dmesg. Any thoughts?