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From: Ben Gamari <bgamari@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: New Alps protocol in the wild?
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 12:01:29 -0400
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James <linux-input@madingley.org> 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.

Cheers,

- Ben


[1] http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=sforshee/alps-reg-dump.git;a=summary