Bug 10918

Summary:	hpfall is a daemon which uses the inbuilt acclerometer of HP laptops to park the head when the laptop experiences shock
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Sai Prashanth <sai.prashanth.92>
Component:	New RPM package request	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	derekjenn
Version:	3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/contrib/linux/Documentation/laptops/hpfall.c
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Source RPM:		CVE:
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Description Sai Prashanth 2013-08-04 12:37:16 CEST

Alomst all of the HP laptops have 3D Driveguard. This package is crucial for the HP laptops that include the 3D Driverguard (many from HP) and should be included in Mageia. The device use the PC accelerometer device used to park the hard drive spindle when the notebook PC falls or is in motion. When functioning correctly, an amber LED will light in the hard drive notification area.

Now, the driver for the accelerometer is loaded by default in Linux Kernel as modules hp_accel and lis3ld02d. It can be used as a Joystick as well. And works really well in Mageia. I have it on my HP Pavillion DV6 3052TX with Mageia 3 x86-x64. So in order to activate the protection it is needed to run the hpfall.c deamon that is not included in Mageia by default. In order to render usefulness of the sensor on the HP laptops the package should be included in Mageia. Otherwise, the device won't protect the hard disk in case of fall and it
is useful just to play pinball with the HP laptops.

I am new to linux and i personally do not know how to compile hpfall.c and make it work. Can anyone compile it so that it could be installed on HP laptops? 

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Sai Prashanth 2013-08-04 12:41:56 CEST

Source RPM: There is actually no RPM available for Mageia yet this is just a request make new RPM package => http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~baker/devices/lxr/http/source/linux/Documentation/hwmon/hpfall.c

Comment 1 Derek Jennings 2013-08-04 15:53:56 CEST

I do not have HP laptop, so cannot help, but upstream source is at
https://github.com/srijan/hpfall.git

and Arch Linux package as an example is at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hpfall-git/

CC: (none) => derekjenn

Manuel Hiebel 2013-08-06 22:57:14 CEST

Source RPM: http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~baker/devices/lxr/http/source/linux/Documentation/hwmon/hpfall.c => (none)

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2015-03-31 16:04:35 CEST

Mageia 3 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status 4 months ago.
http://blog.mageia.org/en/2014/11/26/lets-say-goodbye-to-mageia-3/ 

Mageia 3 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Mageia
please feel free to click on "Version" change it against that version of Mageia
and reopen this bug.

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Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD