Can't calibrate/control to any useful degree

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What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Connect a WiiMote successfully and press "calibrate"
2. Point a remote at the WiiMote (facing right side up)
3. Be unsuccessful at calibrating or moving the yellow dot to any useful degree
4. Press "Activate"
5. Watch the "Applications" menu open and close fairly rapidly, not be able
to control computer with WiiMote 

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

Latest, on Ubuntu 8.04 Beta

Original issue reported on code.google.com by andrew1s...@gmail.com on 3 Apr 2008 at 2:24

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Also, I'm using a Kensington K33348 USB Bluetooth Adapter.

Original comment by andrew1s...@gmail.com on 3 Apr 2008 at 12:11

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Can you clarify what you meant by 'yellow dot'?. The small yellow square within
Wiimote's camera or the yellow dot in the 2nd circle?.

The yellow dot is there to notice users how inaccurate their IR signal is. If 
one's
got placed the Wiimote at a good angle/good IR pen then the yellow dot should 
move
very little when calibrating. If it went outside of the circle then you'd have 
to
re-calibrate that point again.

The behavior after activating is expected if you didn't successfully calibrate 
prior
to that. Problems when calibrating mostly boil down to either low/bad IR 
signals or
bad angle from which your Wiimote is looking at the screen. I suggest trying the
following:

 - The Wiimote shouldn't be placed at a too large angle from the screen, the more
straight it sees the screen, the better.
 - Try changing your batteries for both Wiimote and IR pen :-) .
 - The Wiimote should see the entire screen, but the screen should fit as much as
possible in the Wiicamera, meaning placing the Wii too far away on a too small 
screen
reduces accuracies. You can see the utilized tracking area when calibrating.

Original comment by vanhtu1...@gmail.com on 3 Apr 2008 at 10:25

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Generally, a Wiimote placed at 45 degrees, 1m from a 14" screen with a 5mm IR 
pen
should still produce good results.

Original comment by vanhtu1...@gmail.com on 3 Apr 2008 at 10:28

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Original comment by vanhtu1...@gmail.com on 14 Apr 2008 at 12:39

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