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: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 3:35 AM
Subject: 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.

More info:

It works fully, out of the box, on SuSE 9.3 (even the LiveDVD, no manual 
config)

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