Making Fedora work with laptops on docking station with external monitor

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.

The BIOS generally manages to get that one correct, can we not query
and keep the current state on boot?

Peter