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APS(4)                  NetBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual                 APS(4)


NAME
aps -- ThinkPad Active Protection System accelerometer
SYNOPSIS
aps0 at isa? port 0x1600
DESCRIPTION
The aps driver provides support for several sensors found in some ThinkPad laptops. The sensors currently exposed via the envsys(4) interface are: Sensor Units Typical Use x-acceleration integer X-axis acceleration y-acceleration integer Y-axis acceleration x-variable integer Weighted X acceleration? y-variable integer Weighted Y acceleration? temperature 1 degC Unknown temperature temperature 2 degC Unknown temperature keyboard active boolean Keyboard activity mouse active boolean Mouse activity lid open boolean Lid state
SEE ALSO
envsys(4), hpacel(4), thinkpad(4), envstat(8)
HISTORY
The aps driver first appeared in OpenBSD 3.8 and was then ported to NetBSD 5.0.
AUTHORS
The aps driver was written by Jonathan Gray <jsg@openbsd.org>.
CAVEATS
Few issues can be mentioned. · The aps driver does not maintain state and subsequently does not take evasive action when it thinks the hard drive is in danger. Possible actions would include spinning down the hard drive in case excessive tremor is detected by the sensors. · The Y axis on X40 and possibly other models seems to be inverted. It is unknown how to distinguish between different versions of the accelerometer to compensate for this in the driver at this time. · The sensor values are refreshed every 0.5 seconds. Because no pro- tection measures are taken, this is unnecessary and may have a nega- tive effect on battery life. · As IBM provides no documentation, it is not known what all the avail- able sensors are used for. NetBSD 10.99 July 13, 2011 NetBSD 10.99
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