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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 21:57:04 +0300
From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@gmail.com>
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On 6/20/05, Lenz Grimmer <lenz@grimmer.com> wrote:
> On Windows, you need to run a separate tray application that enables the
> protection. So it seems like it's implemented in "userspace". It may be
> worth debugging what this Window applet actually does...

According to this [1], the mechanism can tell the difference between
harmful movements and repetitive motion which definitely suggests an
in driver (or userspace) statistics model based prediction.

P.S. I have a ThinkPad 41p or 42p at work. I am willing to help out if
it has the said device and we can get enough info on how to program
it.

                        Pekka

  1. http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=1893