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Subject: Re: thinkpad Accelerometer driver
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On Monday 15 August 2005 02:25 am, m.ehinger@ltur.de wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i wrote a driver for the Accelerometers found in Thinkpad (aka Active 
Protection System, well at least the base for ist).
> 
> It's also the first driver i wrote. So there may be fundamental errors in 
it.
> 
> Works quiet well for me so far (T42).
> 
> 
> I get still some lockups with a lot of ACPI error messages.
> 
> If somebody's interested and willing to try, mail me. (I'm still searching 
web space)
> 
> I would also know if there's something that i made wrong or if there are 
better ways to do thinks.
> Maybe someone can have a look at the code.
> Please let me know.

You can try asking about the ACPI errors you get on the freebsd-acpi@ mailing 
list if you haven't already. 

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