| Kernel driver lis3lv02d | 
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 | Supported chips: | 
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 |   * STMicroelectronics LIS3LV02DL, LIS3LV02DQ (12 bits precision) | 
 |   * STMicroelectronics LIS302DL, LIS3L02DQ, LIS331DL (8 bits) | 
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 | Authors: | 
 |         Yan Burman <burman.yan@gmail.com> | 
 | 	Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net> | 
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 | Description | 
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 | This driver provides support for the accelerometer found in various HP laptops | 
 | sporting the feature officially called "HP Mobile Data Protection System 3D" or | 
 | "HP 3D DriveGuard". It detects automatically laptops with this sensor. Known | 
 | models (full list can be found in drivers/platform/x86/hp_accel.c) will have | 
 | their axis automatically oriented on standard way (eg: you can directly play | 
 | neverball). The accelerometer data is readable via | 
 | /sys/devices/platform/lis3lv02d. Reported values are scaled | 
 | to mg values (1/1000th of earth gravity). | 
 |  | 
 | Sysfs attributes under /sys/devices/platform/lis3lv02d/: | 
 | position - 3D position that the accelerometer reports. Format: "(x,y,z)" | 
 | rate - read reports the sampling rate of the accelerometer device in HZ. | 
 | 	write changes sampling rate of the accelerometer device. | 
 | 	Only values which are supported by HW are accepted. | 
 | selftest - performs selftest for the chip as specified by chip manufacturer. | 
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 | This driver also provides an absolute input class device, allowing | 
 | the laptop to act as a pinball machine-esque joystick. Joystick device can be | 
 | calibrated. Joystick device can be in two different modes. | 
 | By default output values are scaled between -32768 .. 32767. In joystick raw | 
 | mode, joystick and sysfs position entry have the same scale. There can be | 
 | small difference due to input system fuzziness feature. | 
 | Events are also available as input event device. | 
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 | Selftest is meant only for hardware diagnostic purposes. It is not meant to be | 
 | used during normal operations. Position data is not corrupted during selftest | 
 | but interrupt behaviour is not guaranteed to work reliably. In test mode, the | 
 | sensing element is internally moved little bit. Selftest measures difference | 
 | between normal mode and test mode. Chip specifications tell the acceptance | 
 | limit for each type of the chip. Limits are provided via platform data | 
 | to allow adjustment of the limits without a change to the actual driver. | 
 | Seltest returns either "OK x y z" or "FAIL x y z" where x, y and z are | 
 | measured difference between modes. Axes are not remapped in selftest mode. | 
 | Measurement values are provided to help HW diagnostic applications to make | 
 | final decision. | 
 |  | 
 | On HP laptops, if the led infrastructure is activated, support for a led | 
 | indicating disk protection will be provided as /sys/class/leds/hp::hddprotect. | 
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 | Another feature of the driver is misc device called "freefall" that | 
 | acts similar to /dev/rtc and reacts on free-fall interrupts received | 
 | from the device. It supports blocking operations, poll/select and | 
 | fasync operation modes. You must read 1 bytes from the device.  The | 
 | result is number of free-fall interrupts since the last successful | 
 | read (or 255 if number of interrupts would not fit). See the hpfall.c | 
 | file for an example on using the device. | 
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 | Axes orientation | 
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 | For better compatibility between the various laptops. The values reported by | 
 | the accelerometer are converted into a "standard" organisation of the axes | 
 | (aka "can play neverball out of the box"): | 
 |  * When the laptop is horizontal the position reported is about 0 for X and Y | 
 | 	and a positive value for Z | 
 |  * If the left side is elevated, X increases (becomes positive) | 
 |  * If the front side (where the touchpad is) is elevated, Y decreases | 
 | 	(becomes negative) | 
 |  * If the laptop is put upside-down, Z becomes negative | 
 |  | 
 | If your laptop model is not recognized (cf "dmesg"), you can send an | 
 | email to the maintainer to add it to the database.  When reporting a new | 
 | laptop, please include the output of "dmidecode" plus the value of | 
 | /sys/devices/platform/lis3lv02d/position in these four cases. | 
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 | Q&A | 
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 | Q: How do I safely simulate freefall? I have an HP "portable | 
 | workstation" which has about 3.5kg and a plastic case, so letting it | 
 | fall to the ground is out of question... | 
 |  | 
 | A: The sensor is pretty sensitive, so your hands can do it. Lift it | 
 | into free space, follow the fall with your hands for like 10 | 
 | centimeters. That should be enough to trigger the detection. |