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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-03-26 18:49:48 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-03-26 18:49:48 +0100 |
commit | 18ffa418aead13c56515ac74cd26105102128aca (patch) | |
tree | 2096ea8db3b2594bd25ad39a70edc691219f669b /Documentation/hwmon/lis3lv02d | |
parent | ab76f3d771590d5c89faa3219559c5d3fc0ce0c2 (diff) | |
parent | 8e0ee43bc2c3e19db56a4adaa9a9b04ce885cd84 (diff) | |
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Merge commit 'v2.6.29' into x86/setup-lzma
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diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/lis3lv02d b/Documentation/hwmon/lis3lv02d index 65dfb0c..287f8c9 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/lis3lv02d +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/lis3lv02d @@ -13,23 +13,34 @@ Author: Description ----------- -This driver provides support for the accelerometer found in various HP laptops -sporting the feature officially called "HP Mobile Data Protection System 3D" or -"HP 3D DriveGuard". It detect automatically laptops with this sensor. Known models -(for now the HP 2133, nc6420, nc2510, nc8510, nc84x0, nw9440 and nx9420) will -have their axis automatically oriented on standard way (eg: you can directly -play neverball). The accelerometer data is readable via +This driver provides support for the accelerometer found in various HP +laptops sporting the feature officially called "HP Mobile Data +Protection System 3D" or "HP 3D DriveGuard". It detect automatically +laptops with this sensor. Known models (for now the HP 2133, nc6420, +nc2510, nc8510, nc84x0, nw9440 and nx9420) will have their axis +automatically oriented on standard way (eg: you can directly play +neverball). The accelerometer data is readable via /sys/devices/platform/lis3lv02d. Sysfs attributes under /sys/devices/platform/lis3lv02d/: position - 3D position that the accelerometer reports. Format: "(x,y,z)" -calibrate - read: values (x, y, z) that are used as the base for input class device operation. - write: forces the base to be recalibrated with the current position. +calibrate - read: values (x, y, z) that are used as the base for input + class device operation. + write: forces the base to be recalibrated with the current + position. rate - reports the sampling rate of the accelerometer device in HZ This driver also provides an absolute input class device, allowing the laptop to act as a pinball machine-esque joystick. +Another feature of the driver is misc device called "freefall" that +acts similar to /dev/rtc and reacts on free-fall interrupts received +from the device. It supports blocking operations, poll/select and +fasync operation modes. You must read 1 bytes from the device. The +result is number of free-fall interrupts since the last successful +read (or 255 if number of interrupts would not fit). + + Axes orientation ---------------- @@ -39,11 +50,12 @@ the accelerometer are converted into a "standard" organisation of the axes * When the laptop is horizontal the position reported is about 0 for X and Y and a positive value for Z * If the left side is elevated, X increases (becomes positive) - * If the front side (where the touchpad is) is elevated, Y decreases (becomes negative) + * If the front side (where the touchpad is) is elevated, Y decreases + (becomes negative) * If the laptop is put upside-down, Z becomes negative -If your laptop model is not recognized (cf "dmesg"), you can send an email to the -authors to add it to the database. When reporting a new laptop, please include -the output of "dmidecode" plus the value of /sys/devices/platform/lis3lv02d/position -in these four cases. +If your laptop model is not recognized (cf "dmesg"), you can send an +email to the authors to add it to the database. When reporting a new +laptop, please include the output of "dmidecode" plus the value of +/sys/devices/platform/lis3lv02d/position in these four cases. |