From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262863AbVFWI2x (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 04:28:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263241AbVFWIW7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 04:22:59 -0400 Received: from styx.suse.cz ([82.119.242.94]:58558 "EHLO mail.suse.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262601AbVFWHNz (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 03:13:55 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 09:13:45 +0200 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Alejandro Bonilla Cc: "'Pavel Machek'" , "'Lee Revell'" , "'Yani Ioannou'" , linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ltp] Re: IBM HDAPS Someone interested? Message-ID: <20050623071345.GA4553@ucw.cz> References: <20050622104927.GB2561@openzaurus.ucw.cz> <001201c57729$0a645840$600cc60a@amer.sykes.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001201c57729$0a645840$600cc60a@amer.sykes.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 06:50:59AM -0600, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > I'm trying to do watch -n1 cat /proc/acpi/ibm/ecdump, But > > I don't have > > > > ecdump. I'm with ibm-acpi 0.8 > > > > > > > > > > I was thinking more along the lines of figure out the io port it's > > > using, then boot windows, set an IO breakpoint in softice, then drop > > > your laptop on the bed or something. > > > > It should be enough to tilt your laptop so that it parks > > heads... safer than > > dropping it. > > > > And perhaps easier solution is to locate the sensor on the > > mainboard, and > > trace where it is connected with magnifying glass (as vojtech > > already suggested). > > > > Pavel > > > > -- > > 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 > > time=448769.1 ms > > > > /proc/acpi/ibm/ecdump is really not providing any information about this > sensor. yesterday, I almost broke the laptop to see if it would generate > anything, but it really only outputs ACPI events... > > I shaked it, moved it 90deg and still no result, threw the lappy from like > 40cm to the bed and nothing was really generated. Unless it is too fast like > to generate it in the watch or to be seen by human eye. I dunno. > > It looks like /ecdump won't do it. But that doesn't mean it's not connected to the embedded controller. It just means the embedded controller doesn't generate any inertial events by itself - it may have to be polled with some specific command. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs, SuSE CR