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18.Dd September 11, 2007
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_ACCEL" Ta "Integer" Ta "X Acceleration"
37.It Li "Y_ACCEL" Ta "Integer" Ta "Y Acceleration"
38.It Li "X_VAR" Ta "Integer" Ta "Weighted X Acceleration?"
39.It Li "Y_VAR" Ta "Integer" Ta "Weighted Y Acceleration?"
40.It Li "Temp1" Ta "uK" Ta "Unknown"
41.It Li "Temp2" Ta "uK" Ta "Unknown"
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 envstat 8
49.Sh HISTORY
50The
51.Nm
52driver first appeared in
53.Ox 3.8
54and then was ported to
55.Nx
565.0.
57.Sh AUTHORS
58The
59.Nm
60driver was written by
61.An Jonathan Gray Aq jsg@openbsd.org .
62.Sh CAVEATS
63The
64.Nm
65driver does not yet maintain state and subsequently does not take
66evasive action when it thinks the hard drive is in danger.
67.Pp
68The Y axis on X40 and possibly other models seems to be inverted.
69It is unknown how to distinguish between different versions of the
70accelerometer to compensate for this in the driver at this time.
71.Pp
72As IBM provides no documentation, it is not known what all the available
73sensors are used for.
74