Poll: Does ACPI lid state work on your Linux laptop?

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 15:21 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 05:01:11PM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 23:44 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > > Hello list,
> > > 
> > > I'm curious to know how many laptops have problems with
> > > ACPI lid state in Linux. I've been told some laptops report
> > > wrong lid state through ACPI, while my laptop seems to report it properly.
> > 
> > Once you have this data, what do you intend to do with it?
> > 
> 
> Good question. I was just curious to know how widespread problem that is.
> 
> I tend to use my laptop in the docking station, only using external monitor,
> so it's annoying when testing new alpha/beta/final Fedora releases
> and Fedora uses the internal lvds, under the *closed* lid, as a primary display..
> ie. the installer/livedesktop is not visible at all on my setup, until I open the lid.
> 
> So just trying to find some kind of workaround to that..
> Using "clone-mode" as a default would solve the problem.. 
> (now the default mode in Fedora is to use "extended desktop")

I think I recall discussing this with the anaconda team before; we
agreed in principle that it would make sense for anaconda to default to
clone mode, but the problem is X doesn't have any very easy mechanism
for overriding the default, there is no simple command line parameter
anaconda could pass to X to launch it in clone mode instead of span
mode. anaconda would have to include an X config stub to specify clone
mode and then ensure that stub wasn't installed. I think no-one got
around to getting that done yet. I'm not sure if there's a bug for it,
but you could have a look.
-- 
Adam Williamson
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