My understanding is that it is used to disengage the hard drives, and park their heads in case of a physical shock so they don't ding up the platters.

On 8/25/07, Martin Ahnelöv <operagasten@gmail.com> wrote:
fre 2007-08-24 klockan 21:51 +0200 skrev Cédric Krier:
> On 24/08/07 20:51 +0200, Martin Ahnelöv wrote:
> > fre 2007-08-24 klockan 20:24 +0200 skrev Cédric Krier:
> > > Hi, here is the patch updated (for chuck 1.2.1.0) for tiltsensor on linux.
> > > The driver for the sensor is now in the kernel version 2.6.22.
> > > I hope it will be add in the next release.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> >
> > Hm.... Gogle didn't give me any satisfying results, so I have to ask
> > you: What is a tiltsensor? I understand that it is something you can
> > tilt and thus make it send signals as a normal HID, but ... Well, where
> > can I get one for starters?
> >
>
> It is a accelerometer that is on the macbooks.
> Chuck works already with this sensor on MacOS.
>
> Cédric Krier

Oh, Macbooks got a built-in tiltsensor? Does OSX use it for anything, or
is it just pretty on the specs?

Gasten

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