Kino README_jogshuttle This file describes the support Kino have for using "Jog Shuttles" for input. Jog/Shuttles are devices made especially for working with streams of data, such as Video or Audio. What devices are supported -------------------------- Kino has explcit support for several USB Jog/Shuttle devices: Contour ShuttlePro (various versions) Contour ShuttleXPress JLCooper MCS3 Griffin PowerMate X-Keys Editor The "Sony PCDA-J1/A USB Jog Shuttle" controller has also been known to work at some point. In theory, Kino should work with any (usb) Jog/Shuttle devices that supports the USB HID v1.10 Pointer profile. If you use Kino succesfully with a device other than the above, please let the kino developers know what device and what your experience was by mailing the Kino developer list on Kino-dev@lists.sourceforge.net How to use the Jog/Shuttle devices ---------------------------------- If you have a working USB system (e.g. an USB mouse is connected and works), you should be able to simply plug in the Jog/Shuttle device. This should append something like the following to your systems log (/var/log/messages most often): Dec 10 19:40:59 localhost input: Contour Design Jog and Shuttle as /class/input/input17 Dec 10 19:40:59 localhost input: USB HID v1.00 Device [Contour Design Jog and Shuttle ] on usb-0000:02:00.0-2.3 The exact text and number of messages may wary. At this point, some systems needs to load the "evdev" driver. You can do this, as root, by issuing the command #modprobe evdev Your system can be set up to do this automatically - it is outside the scope of this document to explain how to do this. Now you can start Kino, go to File|Preferences|Jog/Shuttle. You need to tick on "Enable Jog/Shuttle input" Restart Kino for the changes to take effect. You must have read access to the device file (typically one of /dev/input/eventN). At this point you should have Jog/Shuttle support in Kino. You can use the preferences dialog to change the mappings between the buttons and actions in Kino. Udev (formerly Hotplug) support ------------------------------- If your systems supports udev, Kino supplies a udev rules file that configures your system to give all users read permission to the jog/shuttle evdev device file and to notify a running kino process when you have inserted a supported Jog/Shuttle. You can do this, by configuring kino like this: ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc or ./configure --with-udev-rules-dir=/etc/udev/rules.d After you have installed kino, you need to tell your system to reload the rules. This varies by distribution and may require restarting of the udev service or running some special utility. A reboot suffices as a last resort. Troubleshooting --------------- If you have trouble getting your Jog/Shuttle to work, please send a bug report to kino-dev@lists.sourceforge.net . Make sure to include information about what device your are trying to get to work, your distribution, kernel version (the output of uname -a), and relevant log information.
