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Calling events and acceleration and magnetometer #10

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I try to simultaneously take acceleration and magnetic field readings from the sensor (otherwise why would there be an accelerometer and a magnetometer in the chip).
To get acceleration I take this library.
Call it with this code.

#include <Adafruit_LSM303_Accel.h>
#include <Adafruit_LSM303DLH_Mag.h>

Adafruit_LSM303_Accel_Unified  accel(123);
Adafruit_LSM303DLH_Mag_Unified mag(321);

#define SerialPort Serial


void setup()
{
	  if (!accel.begin() && !mag.begin())
	  {
		SerialPort.println("Oops ... unable to initialize the LSM303(accel + mag). Check your wiring!");
		while (1);
	  }
}

void loop()
{
	sensors_event_t accelEvent, magEvent;
	accel.getEvent(&accelEvent);
	mag.getEvent(&magEvent);

	ax = accelEvent.acceleration.x;
	ay = accelEvent.acceleration.y;
	az = accelEvent.acceleration.z;


	mx = magEvent.magnetic.x;
	my = magEvent.magnetic.y
        mz = magEvent.magnetic.z;

	  SerialPort.print("\t\tAccel X: ");
	  SerialPort.print(ax);
	  SerialPort.print(" \tY: ");
	  SerialPort.print(ay);
	  SerialPort.print(" \tZ: ");
	  SerialPort.print(az);
	  SerialPort.println(" m/s^2 ");

	  SerialPort.print("\t\tMag X: ");
	  SerialPort.print(mx);
	  SerialPort.print(" \tY: ");
	  SerialPort.print(my);
	  SerialPort.print(" \tZ: ");
	  SerialPort.print(mz);
	  Serial.print("  ");
	  Serial.println("uT");
}

But something is wrong and I only see acceleration values, while the values from the magnetometer are frozen at the same numbers.

        Accel X: 2.30   Y: 4.14         Z: 6.44 m/s^2
        Mag X: 10684.78         Y: -1996.96     Z: 15.61  uT

Separately, the example for the magnetometer works fine.
Is there some problem with calling events
sensors_event_t
from both the magnetometer and accelerometer?
Is it not possible to call them simultaneously using these libraries?

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