I recently got a new laptop. And now I'm trying to figure out what all the stuff they put into it actually is :) . One thing that doesn't seem quite right is that the acer-wmi driver is loaded and claims that this laptop has an "Acer BMA150 accelerometer". It is true that there is a device there matching #define AMW0_GUID1 "67C3371D-95A3-4C37-BB61-DD47B491DAAB" as can be seen: bjorn@miraculix:~$ ls -l /sys/devices/virtual/wmi/67C3371D-95A3-4C37-BB61-DD47B491DAAB total 0 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jul 14 23:10 modalias drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 14 23:10 power lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jul 14 23:10 subsystem -> ../../../../class/wmi -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jul 14 23:10 uevent But I sort of doubt there is an Acer specific device here. Maybe this is a generic accelerometer interface? Or is there something else going on? The input device created by the driver just just returns -EPERM when I try to open it, so I don't think this actually works as-is: root@miraculix:/tmp# cat /dev/input/event8 cat: /dev/input/event8: Operation not permitted And it does seem a little weird that a Thinkpad should need an Acer specific platform driver anyway.... thinkpad_acpi is of course handling all(?) the Thinkpad specifics as expected. Bjørn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
