spic(4)

spic4

Sony programmable i/o controller device driver

Usage

device spic

Overview

The spic driver allows using moused(8) to drive the Sony Vaio Jogdial device found on several Sony Vaio models. It works by mapping the forward, backwards, up, and down inputs to “l”, “r”, “u”, and “d”, respectively. From that a program reading the Jogdial can decide what to do. Some actions might include scrolling, mimicking mouse buttons, launching applications, or other useful things.

History

The spic device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 4.6.

Authors

Nick Sayer ⟨[email protected]⟩ Will Andrews ⟨[email protected]⟩

From freebsd-manpages 6.0-5 in Debian 4.0 (Etch). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.