Bug 69880 – Vaio jogdial has partially stopped working since kde-3.3.1 --> kde-3.3.1-r1

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX

[Description Ulrich Plate (RETIRED) 2004-11-02 13:31:13 UTC]

This is unrelated to my earlier bug #54512 which eventually had nothing to do with KDE. Looks like it's different this time, because it does not exist in other window managers on the same laptop (tested in Ion3), only in KDE. 

After moving from kde-3.3.1 to kde-3.3.1-r1 a few days ago, the mouse wheel that used to scroll flawlessly (in all applications except acroread) has ceased to work as such. Scrolling up and down now only produces "Unhandled event: 1" and "2", scrolling while pressing down the jogdial gets unhandled events #3 and 4. It still works as a third mouse button when pressed, though, I can paste highlighted text this way, for example. All this on a Vaio PCG-R505R/GK with its jogdial built into the touchpad. Nothing else has changed in this system. I was used to getting those "unhandled event" messages for all the other special function keys (sleep, brightness, volume) in the Vaio, but this is the first time scrolling with the wheel doesn't work. 

etcat -v from KDE, Xorg, sonypid
*  kde-base/kde :
        [   ] 3.1.5 (3.1)
        [   ] 3.2.0 (3.2)
        [   ] 3.2.2 (3.2)
        [   ] 3.2.3 (3.2)
        [   ] 3.3.0 (3.3)
        [  I] 3.3.1 (3.3)
*  x11-base/xorg-x11 :
        [   ] 6.7.0-r2 (0)
        [  I] 6.8.0-r1 (0)
        [M~ ] 6.8.0-r2 (0)
*  app-misc/sonypid :
        [  I] 1.9 (0)

The sonypi module itself comes from a 2.6.9-mm1 kernel.

emerge info:

Portage 2.0.51-r2 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.4.20041021-r0, 2.6.9-mm1 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.9-mm1 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine)
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.4
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r1
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21,sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.22
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs candy ccache distcc distlocks fixpackages moo sandbox userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://gentoo.inode.at/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aalib alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts canna cdr cjk crypt cups encode esd f77 faad fbcon foomaticdb foreign-package gdbm gif gimpprint gpm gtk gtk2 guile iconv imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad matroska mikmod mng motif moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozsvg mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl operanom2 oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang smime spell ssl svg svga tcpd tetex tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode wifi wmf wxwindows x86 xface xim xml2 xmms xv xvid xvmc"

Please tell me if you need any further infos.

[Comment 1 Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) 2005-01-10 05:06:28 UTC]

Sorry, it seems no one here has enough experience with that kind of hardware.
Was it fixed in the meantime?