On 05/28/2011 08:03 PM, Richard Schütz wrote:
> On 05/26/11 20:27, Alberto Mardegan wrote:
>> Secondly, I'd like to add support for reading the accelerometer values,
>> as it's done here (again, kudos to Javier):
>> http://gitorious.org/iaps/iaps/blobs/master/iaps.c
>> I know that no one is happy of directly accessing the raw I/O ports, but
>> all my attempts of reading these values through the ACPI interfaces or
>> the EC fields have failed: the fields are always set to 0.
>> So, what I plan to do is to check the DMI information, and if the
>> machine is a S10-3t I would you the code linked above to read and report
>> the accelerometer values. Would that be acceptable?
> 
> I'm wondering if the accelerometer driver is also compatible with the 
> ThinkPad SL laptops. It is said that their firmwares are quite similar to the 
> IdeaPad ones. As they have quasi nothing in common with the normal ThinkPad 
> series there's no support for them in thinkpad-acpi/hdaps/tp_smapi.

So far what I know is SL400 has similar firmware with asus-laptops, and other 
SL are using thinkpad-acpi.

I have a SL400 and tried to examine the DSDT but found nothing about 
accelerometer sensor.

> 
> I compiled the iaps module and loaded it successfully on my ThinkPad SL. 
> There is also data passed by the driver to the input subsystem, when I move 
> the laptop. Is there a way to validate this data?
> 

Which SL you have? If we can find out a standard interface, that will be good.
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