From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Seth Forshee Subject: Re: New Alps protocol in the wild? Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 11:15:45 -0500 Message-ID: <20120814161545.GE18992@thinkpad-t410> References: <20120814103553.GF23370@arianrhod.panaceas.james.local> <87mx1xxy1y.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:58629 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751943Ab2HNQP7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Aug 2012 12:15:59 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87mx1xxy1y.fsf@gmail.com> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Ben Gamari Cc: James , linux-input@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:01:29PM -0400, Ben Gamari wrote: > James writes: > > > I just got a Dell E6230 with the same E7 report: 73 03 0a > > As noted above using the qemu serio logging doesn't work. > > The driver only enables multitouch if it sees the right > > name for the device in the DSDT. > > > > The following patch (against the seabios in qemu-0.14.1) > > enables the windows 7 driver (7.1211.101.114 from > > http://www.dell.com/support/drivers/us/en/04/DriverDetails/DriverFileFormats/Product/latitude-e6230?DriverId=CKNFN&FileId=2988050063&urlProductCode=False > > ) to bind successfully and alows one to get data from the serio > > logging patch > > > > Are there any standard tools for reverse engineering the > > protocol - I saw mention of an alps-reg-dump but was > > unable to find it? > > > alps-reg-dump can be found here[1]. Depending upon how different the > protocol is it may or may not be useful, however. Just a warning that I haven't updated that in quite some time, and I'm not even sure exactly how far I was in reverse engineering the protocol when I stopped updating it. So it may or may not be useful to you. Seth