673374 - Orientation support is broken on HP laptops

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P5)

Description

[Martey Dodoo]

I have a HP dm1-3000 laptop, which I run Debian on. The laptop's accelerometer is detected by the lis3lv02d module in the Linux kernel I am running, so bug 562175 leads me to believe that it should be working. However, accelerometer demos like the one at http://www.squarefree.com/smoother-orientation-demo.html do not work, even on the latest nightly - 8.0a1 (2011-07-21).

The current trunk version of dom/system/unix/nsDeviceMotionSystem.cpp contains a link to "/sys/devices/platform/lis3lv02d/calibrate", which does not exist on my system. Looking at the lm-sensors mailing list, it looks like this was removed from the kernel driver, because the lis3lv02d chip is pre-calibrated:

http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2009-November/027166.html

Comment 1

[Josh Matthews [:jdm]]

I don't believe we support the prefixed orientation event anymore (ie. MozOrientation) that the test uses.

Comment 2

[Martey Dodoo]

I just found http://sandbox.juurlink.org/accelerometer/ , which supports both MozOrientation and DeviceOrientation, but it still did not work. If there is another demo that should be used to determine support, please let me know about it.

Comment 3

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven't been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

If you have questions, please contact :mdaly.

Comment 7

[Hassan]

we recommend ensuring that all relevant drivers and software are up to date, as this can sometimes resolve such issues. You can check for updates through the HP Support Assistant or the official HP website. For more information about laptops visit website https://www.laptopsinsights.com/.