[ltp] Re: [Hdaps-devel] hdaps axis orientations

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:24:14 -0200


On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Shem Multinymous wrote:
> On Jan 11, 2008 3:59 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, Shem Multinymous wrote:
> > > It looks like the situation with the accelerometer orientation is even
> > > worse than we thought -- orientation varies between identically-named
> > > models. For example, I got an email saying the T60 1951-A31 has
> > > swapped and semi-inverted axes (invert=7), but ThinkWiki user Roam
> > > reports that his T60 1951-CA2 has both-inverted axes (invert=1).
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any idea what's going on?
> >
> > Sure.  The first four digits is the real key.  If they change, anything
> > could change (even if it goes with the same "thinkpad" model name, like
> > X61).
> 
> Indeed, but the above conflicting reports are both for model 1951...

Apologies, I hadn't notice that!  It is indeed unexpected.  Maybe adding a
debug dump option to tp_smapi that gets the hdaps range would be in order?
If a bit flips there, we have the holy grail.  But more than likely, we are
in deep crap... 

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  Henrique Holschuh