Re: ps2/ new data for mouse protocol (fwd msg attached)

[Erik Mouw]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 07:32:29PM +0200, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> Have a look into the attached email before reading mine, please.
> 
> Is it possible to find out about what those bytes are ?
> And is it possible to intergrate the support for other
> 3 bytes into the Linux kernel ?

So they put information about four buttons in six bytes and call that
proprietary? ROFL! How hard can it be? I think it will be fairly
straight forward to reverse engineer the format, it can't be rocket
science.

Erik

> From: "Fidel Zawde" <[e-mail]>
> To: <[e-mail]>
> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 10:21:22 -0800
> Subject: FW: informations needed of touchpad
> 
> Hello,
> 
> In order to use four buttons the data packages must be larger than the
> standard 3 bytes.  The data packages that the touchpad sends in absolute
> mode is 6 bytes.  The information on how the buttons are inserted into the 6
> byte packet is proprietary.  However, if you would like more information on
> the data packets that are sent from the touchpad you can download the
> "Synaptics Touchpad Interfacing guide" from our website www.synaptics.com.
 

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