Making Fedora work with laptops on docking station with external monitor

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 19:05 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 08:53:12AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 
> > Maybe just 'lid closed and external monitor connected' would be close
> > enough? Is there a use case where you'd want to have an external monitor
> > connected and the internal system's lid closed, but still have the
> > internal system's display turned on?
> 
> No, but there is a use case where you'd want to have an external monitor 
> connected and the system report that the lid is closed, but still have 
> the internal system's display turned on. Hardware lies.

that is a hardware/kernel/acpi bug. The appropriate way to fix it, IMHO,
is to have the sensor report the correct information if it's at all
possible to fix it in the kernel/acpi layer, or if not, blacklist that
specific system so that its lid sensor is completely ignored.
-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA Community Monkey
IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org
http://www.happyassassin.net