Making Fedora work with laptops on docking station with external monitor

[Dan Horák]

Pasi Kärkkäinen píše v Čt 07. 10. 2010 v 22:29 +0300: 
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 10:17:11AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 10:49 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > 
> > > > that bug is already inconvenient for some people; if they have laptops
> > > > with bad lid switches it'd be much more inconvenient. The only active
> > > > display would be the external display they weren't actually using.
> > > 
> > > I read that bugzilla as it's a driver bug.. so it'll get fixed at some point.
> > 
> > Not really; the driver isn't able to detect if connected monitors are
> > turned on. It's not clear if this is really *theoretically* possible,
> > which is why the report's been closed. And it doesn't cover the case
> > where a connected monitor is powered on but not actually being used for
> > the computer.
> > 
> 
> Hmm... things seem to work always ok on Windows, so it should be possible..

And I dare to call the recent behaviour a regression, because IIRC it
worked well until one (not identified) update in F-12.


Dan