From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 07:08:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 07:08:44 -0400 Received: from mailout04.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.18]:15364 "EHLO mailout04.sul.t-online.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 07:08:34 -0400 Message-ID: <3B5EA8F8.D8C0EDE7@t-online.de> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 13:09:44 +0200 From: Gunther.Mayer@t-online.de (Gunther Mayer) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.6-ac5 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erik Mouw CC: Nico Schottelius , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: ps2/ new data for mouse protocol (fwd msg attached) In-Reply-To: <3B5DB12D.2B9C205E@pcsystems.de> <20010725012334.L23404@arthur.ubicom.tudelft.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing Erik Mouw wrote: > > 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. No need for this, just read the public available documentation ! Proprietary != Secret. However, some mouse secrets from various sources I hacked in here: http://home.t-online.de/home/gunther.mayer/gm_psauxprint-0.01.c