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28.Dd May 20, 2002
29.Dt SPIC 4
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm spic
33.Nd Sony Programmable I/O Controller device driver
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Cd "device spic"
36.Sh DESCRIPTION
37The
38.Nm
39driver allows using
40.Xr moused 8
41to drive the Sony Vaio Jogdial device found on several Sony Vaio models.
42It works by mapping the forward, backwards, up, and down inputs to
43.Dq l ,
44.Dq r ,
45.Dq u ,
46and
47.Dq d ,
48respectively.
49From that a program reading the Jogdial can decide what to do.
50Some actions might include scrolling, mimicking mouse buttons, launching
51applications, or other useful things.
52.Sh SEE ALSO
53.Xr moused 8
54.Sh HISTORY
55The
56.Nm
57device driver first appeared in
58.Fx 4.6 .
59.Sh AUTHORS
60.An Nick Sayer Aq Mt nsayer@FreeBSD.org
61.An Will Andrews Aq Mt will@FreeBSD.org
62