Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 21:34:25 -0800 From: Nick <nsayer@quack.kfu.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Nick's semi-periodic hardware support prize -- take 2 Message-ID: <3A25E6E1.24C006B9@quack.kfu.com>
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As many of you know, I offered a US$100 prize a while ago for a working driver for the ESS Solo-1 sound chip. I decided to offer the prize to Cameron Grant, but he declined, so the money will be donated to the FreeBSD Foundation in Cameron's name at the first appropriate opportunity. But now it is time for another one. Once again, the prize is US$100. The setting is my Sony Z505JE laptop, which has several functions available under Windows that do not work on FreeBSD. I suspect all of these devices are actually controlled the same way. Under Windows, there is a device driver for "Sony programmable I/O control" at 0x1080 and 0x1084, IRQ 11. I suspect that this device is how you can get at the jog wheel, the Fn+F3-5 buttons, and perhaps other things as well (I speculate perhaps the lid switch is in there). Just to keep it simple, though, I'll confine the prize to the first person who fully documents the interface to this device. I will be the final judge of the fullness of the documentation, but at the very least the winner should be able to show exactly how to generate select()able events in userland on jog dial rotation and clicking. Extra cool bonus points for turning the jog dial into a device controllable by moused (1 button, 1 Z axis, obviously), thus adding a mouse wheel and a middle mouse button to X with it. Let me also make it clear that any claimant is disqualified if he relies on any method of obtaining this information that violates any of Sony's intelectual property rights. If you've signed an NDA with them and participating will violate that NDA, please don't participate. Note also that you can't win by trying to give me the information under an NDA. The information provided by the winner must be openly publishable. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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