Re: jogdial and kde

I'm a little bit slow, but...

sjb wrote:
> sjb wrote:
> 
>> I think it may be part of the mouse driver itself - but I'm still not 
>> entirely sure.

I can confirm that it is not the mouse driver itself. I have
experienced the changed behavior since the 2.4.20 Kernels from
SuSE, while 2.4.19 sends no events alternative mouse events.

> This isn't a fix .. but it seems to be the sonypi module itself. The 
> module takes an option called "useinput" ...

This has been added to the sonypi documentation in the upcoming 2.4.21.
(http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.4/21-rc3/Documentation/sonypi.txt)

> "The attached patch makes the sonypi driver forward the VAIO jogdial
> events directly to the input subsystem as mouse wheel events. This
> way one is not required anymore to have an external daemon polling
> /dev/sonypi if interested only in jogdial events."

As it seems this behavior is already patched to the SuSE 2.4.20
Kernels, maybe even to the kernel.org 2.4.20 Kernels. But there
is no switch "useinput".

It seems, that the jogdial events are send through the USB
subsystem. I have experienced, that I can disable the scrolling
by disableing the USB-Mouse in XF86Config. This can be also
used to disable or explicitly enable the Jogdial if now USB-
Mouse is used.

Section "InputDevice"
   Driver        "mouse"
   Identifier    "Mouse[sonypi]"
   Option        "Vendor"                "Sony"
   Option        "Name"                  "Vaio GRX316MP Jogdail"
   Option        "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
   Option        "Protocol"              "ExplorerPS/2"
   Option        "Resolution"            "400"
   Option        "Buttons"               "5"
   Option        "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
EndSection

Unfortunately it seems, that I cannot activate the "back"-button
beside my jogdail as mouse button 6 or so :-(. Has anybody an
Idea - or knows how to activate an X11 Mapping for other Sony
related keys?

CU Tronje