Re: wireless keyboard with built in touchpad

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian K. White" <brian_at_aljex.com>
To: <freebsd-usb_at_freebsd.org>; <freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 8:33 PM
Subject: wireless keyboard with built in touchpad


>I have a VGP-WKB1  Sony Vaio usb, 2.4gz rf wireless, keyboard with built-in 
>touch pad and seperate wireless mouse.
>
> Gizmodo article
> http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/peripherals/input/vaio-vgpwkb1-wireless-keyboard-with-touchpad-036744.php
>
> Sony product page
> http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/SY_DisplayProductInformation-Start?ProductSKU=VGPWKB1&CategoryName=hid_pr_p_20_per_ecoupon_all&DCMP=CNET_DF&HQS=NBA_VGPWKB1
>
> better pictures on this japanese page:
> http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/akiba/hotline/20050319/etc_vgpwkb1.html
>
[...]
> Like all the others I tried, the keyboard part of this works fine on 
> 5.4-release (what thinbsd is built on)
> and the mouse is unrecognized.
> Ordinary usb mice work fine, including when indirectly connected via hubs. 
> I have one slim wired usb keyoard which has a built in 2 port hub and a 
> usb mouse works fine plugged into it.
[...]
> Who can I bribe to get the mouse working ?
> Can I buy one of these and give it to someone (as in it's yours forever) 
> in return for updating the mouse detection in usbd or in the kernel? or 
> even just figuring out whatever cheap hack would allow it to work like 
> maybe just commenting uhid out of the kernel config like you have to do 
> for apcupsd?
>
> dmesg on 5.4-release shows this near the end:
>
> ukbd0: Sony RF Receiver, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2, iclass 3/1 kbd1 at ukbd0
> uhid0: Sony RF Receiver, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2, iclass 3/1 kbd1 at ukbd0
>
> I'm also willing to do the usual testing and reporting myself according to 
> someones direction of course but I really want this so I don't mind making 
> it worth someones while.
> It's a really sweet unit.

More info:
It partially works on Linux.
Xandros Desktop 3 autodetects the mouse (linux 2.6.9 / xorg 6.7.0)
The pointer works but not the buttons.
Even xev doesn't show anything at all when I move the pointer into the xev 
window and press the buttons.
Tapping in the touchpad area doesn't produce a button-press either.
But the pointer follows your finger just fine.

dmesg:
[...]
uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.2: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 
Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.2: irq 12, io base 0000d400
uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[...]
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Sony RF Receiver] on usb-0000:00:11.2-1
input,hiddev0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Sony RF Receiver] on usb-0000:00:11.2-1
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver

/var/log/Xorg.0.log:
[...]
(**) Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
(**) mouse.usb: Device: "/dev/input/mice"
(**) mouse.usb: Protocol: "IMPS/2"
(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) mouse.usb: Core Pointer
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
(**) Option "Emulate3Buttons" "YES"
(**) mouse.usb: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50
(**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
(**) mouse.usb: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) mouse.usb: Buttons: 5
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "mouse.usb" (type: MOUSE)
(II) mouse.usb: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
[...]

In windows it works immediately without any special drivers too.

The linux & windows experience suggests no special driver needs to be 
written, merely get an existing driver attached to the device.

How do I go about that?

When linux is running and working, what can I look at in order to find 
details that freebsd needs? and then where do I use them on freebsd?
Something from /proc? translated into a patch somewhere in the freebsd 
kernel?

I'll try a newer linux and newer xorg than above presently.

The offer still stands, no one has claimed their $150 wireless keyboard.
Thanks

Brian K. White  --  brian_at_aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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