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Re: Toshiba Tecra automatic tablet screen rotation

 

> I always thought that the accelerometer on the toshiba tablets is 
> different from the one on the IBMs, and in particular the toshiba one is 
> unsupported under linux. If I am wrong, we should prepare a package 
> which automatises accelerometer support - and a startup session script 
> that rotates the tablet automatically - and maybe some cool cube 
> rotation under compiz :) That'd be probably easy and fun to do.

Found out that LIS3L02AQ has only analogue outputs. So, there's some ADC
(Analog to Digital Converter) and another device responding to software
requests. That means, we have to dig into Toshiba windows driver
internals:
Thpevm.sys
Thpdrv.sys
maybe some other files also.





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