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18.Dd July 13, 2011
19.Dt APS 4
20.Os
21.Sh NAME
22.Nm aps
23.Nd ThinkPad Active Protection System accelerometer
24.Sh SYNOPSIS
25.Cd "aps0 at isa? port 0x1600"
26.Sh DESCRIPTION
27The
28.Nm
29driver provides support for several sensors found in some ThinkPad laptops.
30.Pp
31The sensors currently exposed via the
32.Xr envsys 4
33interface are:
34.Bl -column "Sensor        " "Units    " "Typical" -offset indent
35.It Sy "Sensor        " Ta Sy "Units    " Ta Sy "Typical Use"
36.It Li "x-acceleration" Ta "integer" Ta "X-axis acceleration"
37.It Li "y-acceleration" Ta "integer" Ta "Y-axis acceleration"
38.It Li "x-variable" Ta "integer" Ta "Weighted X acceleration?"
39.It Li "y-variable" Ta "integer" Ta "Weighted Y acceleration?"
40.It Li "temperature 1" Ta "degC" Ta "Unknown temperature"
41.It Li "temperature 2" Ta "degC" Ta "Unknown temperature"
42.It Li "keyboard active" Ta "boolean" Ta "Keyboard activity"
43.It Li "mouse active" Ta "boolean" Ta "Mouse activity"
44.It Li "lid open" Ta "boolean" Ta "Lid state"
45.El
46.Sh SEE ALSO
47.Xr envsys 4 ,
48.Xr hpacel 4 ,
49.Xr thinkpad 4 ,
50.Xr envstat 8
51.Sh HISTORY
52The
53.Nm
54driver first appeared in
55.Ox 3.8
56and was then ported to
57.Nx
585.0.
59.Sh AUTHORS
60The
61.Nm
62driver was written by
63.An Jonathan Gray Aq Mt jsg@openbsd.org .
64.Sh CAVEATS
65Few issues can be mentioned.
66.Bl -bullet
67.It
68The
69.Nm
70driver does not maintain state and subsequently does not take
71evasive action when it thinks the hard drive is in danger.
72Possible actions would include spinning down the hard drive
73in case excessive tremor is detected by the sensors.
74.It
75The Y axis on X40 and possibly other models seems to be inverted.
76It is unknown how to distinguish between different versions of the
77accelerometer to compensate for this in the driver at this time.
78.It
79The sensor values are refreshed every 0.5 seconds.
80Because no protection measures are taken,
81this is unnecessary and may have a negative effect on battery life.
82.It
83As IBM provides no documentation, it is not known what all the available
84sensors are used for.
85.El
86