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#1 2012-01-24 08:00:19
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Detecting and configuring a Bosch G-Sensor accelerometer
Wondering if anyone is able to help.
My tablet has a Bosch G-Sensor accelerometer, and I cannot for the life of me find anything on getting it working in linux.
Googling produces a lot of vague info, but I have found that the device most likely hangs off the i2c bus, and there is the bma150 driver in the kernel since 3.1.
Now I am uncertain if this driver will work as I have not found any info on the device version in my tablet, and I cannot seem to find any way to probe the device for stats.
My device is an Acer Iconia Tab W501. I currently have everything working perfectly except for bluetooth and the accelerometer.
All help is greatly appreciated.
Cheers.
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#2 2012-01-27 21:08:53
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Re: Detecting and configuring a Bosch G-Sensor accelerometer
Ok, after more searching, it seems I need the bma220 driver.
Anyone able to help in locating this?
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#3 2012-01-28 07:43:37
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Re: Detecting and configuring a Bosch G-Sensor accelerometer
Google gives me this:
https://www.codeaurora.org/git/projects … sc/sensors
Doesn't seem to be in the official kernel tree yet.
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#4 2012-01-28 20:04:57
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Re: Detecting and configuring a Bosch G-Sensor accelerometer
Google gives me this:
https://www.codeaurora.org/git/projects … sc/sensors
Doesn't seem to be in the official kernel tree yet.
Yes, I did find this. I pulled all the files for the driver but I can't get them to compile. Unfortunately, I do not know enough to port the driver from the android tree. Anyway, this is the Froyo branch which is based on the 2.6 kernel series (which is probably why I can't get it to compile). Maybe I need to pull it from the ICS branch (but I still think this is the 2.6 kernel series)
Hopefully someone else may be able to help with this or know of another solution to getting this driver.
Cheers.
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