Making Fedora work with laptops on docking station with external monitor

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Tue Oct 5 08:35:33 UTC 2010


On 5 October 2010 05:30, Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com> wrote:
> Are we really stuck with gdm/kdm/lxdm/...dm
> implementing it?

No, I think what we need to do is to teach GPM how to turn off the
internal panel when docked and with the lid closed. The only missing
piece is for the kernel to export some kind of sysfs boolean saying
"in-dock". From talks with mjg59, detecting a dock is pretty hard.

Richard.


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