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27.Dd April 24, 2002
28.Dt SPIC 4 i386
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm spic
32.Nd Sony Programmable I/O Controller
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Cd "spic*    at acpi?"
35.Cd "wsmouse* at spic?"
36.Sh DESCRIPTION
37Some
38.Tn Sony
39computers have an I/O controller that handles various interface
40devices, e.g., the jog dial.  The
41.Nm
42driver provides support for some of these.
43.Pp
44The actual protocol used by the
45.Tn SPIC
46seems to vary a lot between different models; this driver has only
47been tested on the Vaio SRX77.
48.Pp
49The
50.Nm
51driver handles the jog dial and its associated buttons.  They are turned
52into a
53.Nm wsmouse
54which can the be accessed in the normal way.  The jog dial works as a
55scroll button, and clicking it generates a click with the "middle" button.
56.Sh SEE ALSO
57.Xr acpi 4 ,
58.Xr wsmouse 4
59.Sh HISTORY
60The
61.Nm
62driver
63appeared in
64.Nx 1.6 .
65.Sh BUGS
66The
67.Nm
68driver only works with some hardware configurations.
69