Making Fedora work with laptops on docking station with external monitor

Dariusz J. Garbowski thuforuk at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Oct 6 00:29:21 UTC 2010


On 05/10/10 08:40 AM, FlorianFesti wrote:
>   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.

Dells can boot with lid closed when connected to dock. I do that every day :-)

Dariusz




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