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Input: alps - document stick behavior for protocol V2
Document that protocol V2 uses standard (bare) PS/2 mouse packets for the DualPoint stick. Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <[email protected]> Acked-By: Pali Rohár <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]>
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Documentation/input/alps.txt

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Protocol Version 2 DualPoint devices send standard PS/2 mouse packets for
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the DualPoint Stick.
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Dualpoint device -- interleaved packet format
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Devices which use the interleaving format normally send standard PS/2 mouse
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packets for the DualPoint Stick + ALPS Absolute Mode packets for the
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touchpad, switching to the interleaved packet format when both the stick and
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the touchpad are used at the same time.
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ALPS Absolute Mode - Protocol Version 3
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