Making Fedora work with laptops on docking station with external monitor

[FlorianFesti]

  On 10/05/2010 03:15 PM, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> If the lid is open, both output should be enabled by default (you are
> free to manually disable one).  If the lid is closed on battery power
> the system should suspend (unless you choose otherwise in GPM prefs).
>
I wonder if there are latops that can be booted with lid closed and that 
make a subtle sematic difference between the lid was just being closed 
and is lid was already closed when we booted up.

Florian