sensors on GTA04

[L. B.]

ok, I'll have a look. I'll make some notes and send it to the list if I
find something.

Lionel


On 2 April 2014 06:15, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns at goldelico.com> wrote:

>
> Am 02.04.2014 um 03:17 schrieb L. B.:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to play with the compass but the info from the documentation page
> does not correspond with what I got on my phone (using qtmoko v58). The
> page I use is that one:
> http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-kernel/page/Sensors/
>
> In the 'compass' section there is a switch to enable/disable sampling. On
> my phone there is a directory
>
> /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-2/2-001e/
>
> but there is no 'rate' file in there. Same applies for the gyroscope.
> Has anything been changed?
>
>
> No. The kenrel doc is for the Goldelico kernels which were 2.6.32 some
> years ago and now reflect the drivers of 3.12 (ff).
>
> QtMoko AFAIK uses a 3.7 kernel and since the /sys node names are not
> stable (and never will be) you might have to do a little guesswork and look
> into the 3.7 kernel source code to find out how the driver works.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Nikolaus
>
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