Making Fedora work with laptops on docking station with external monitor

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Tue Oct 5 18:28:43 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 19:20 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 11:18:32AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 
> > don't we already have default behaviours based on the lid switch,
> > anyway? So why don't we have this problem with those? IIRC, we default
> > to suspending the system when the lid is closed on battery power - so
> > are we suspending people's systems at random, if those systems have
> > lying lid switches?
> 
> Because we only do that on lid state transitions.

So we could at least cover the case where you plug in an external
monitor, then close the lid? That would be better than nothing. I assume
the problem case is booting with the lid closed and an external monitor
connected.
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