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NAME¶
spic — Sony
Programmable I/O Controller device driver
SYNOPSIS¶
device spic
DEPRECATION NOTICE¶
The spic driver will be removed in
FreeBSD 12.0.
DESCRIPTION¶
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.
SEE ALSO¶
HISTORY¶
The spic device driver first appeared in
FreeBSD 4.6.
AUTHORS¶
Nick Sayer
<nsayer@FreeBSD.org>
Will Andrews
<will@FreeBSD.org>
| July 8, 2017 | Debian |