Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Userspace accelerometer viewer)

Pavel Machek
2005-07-11T15:16:39Z

Hi!

> > PLEASE read the following article, it has the data of a guy that made a
> > driver in IBM for Linux and he described the driver he made.
> > http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/marksmith/tpaps.html
>
> Yesterday evening, I used my time here at Debconf5 constructively! ;-)
>
> http://www.paul.sladen.org/thinkpad-r31/aps/accelerometer-viewer.jpg (43kB)
> http://www.paul.sladen.org/thinkpad-r31/aps/accelerometer-lid-shut.jpg (27kB)
>
> The sensor gives us two 10-bit AD values (corresponding to 0..1 volts on the
> ADI chip), temperature (Celsius) and three status bits indicating:
>
> * lid open/closed
> * keyboard activity
> * nipple movement

Oh, very nice pictures indeed... What is the current interface
between userspace and kernel parts?
Pavel
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