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From: Gunther.Mayer@t-online.de (Gunther Mayer)
To: Erik Mouw <J.A.K.Mouw@ITS.TUDelft.NL>
Cc: Nico Schottelius <nicos@pcsystems.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ps2/ new data for mouse protocol (fwd msg attached)
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 13:09:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B5EA8F8.D8C0EDE7@t-online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B5DB12D.2B9C205E@pcsystems.de> <20010725012334.L23404@arthur.ubicom.tudelft.nl>

Erik Mouw wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 07:32:29PM +0200, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> > Have a look into the attached email before reading mine, please.
> >
> > Is it possible to find out about what those bytes are ?
> > And is it possible to intergrate the support for other
> > 3 bytes into the Linux kernel ?
> 
> So they put information about four buttons in six bytes and call that
> proprietary? ROFL! How hard can it be? I think it will be fairly
> straight forward to reverse engineer the format, it can't be rocket
> science.

No need for this, just read the public available documentation !

Proprietary != Secret.

However, some mouse secrets from various sources I hacked in here: http://home.t-online.de/home/gunther.mayer/gm_psauxprint-0.01.c

  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-25 11:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-24 17:32 ps2/ new data for mouse protocol (fwd msg attached) Nico Schottelius
2001-07-24 23:23 ` Erik Mouw
2001-07-25 11:09   ` Gunther Mayer [this message]
2001-07-25 14:43     ` Allan Sandfeld Jensen
2001-07-25 16:08       ` James Simmons
2001-07-25 18:02         ` Arndt Schoenewald
2001-07-26 18:01   ` Nico Schottelius

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