Making Fedora work with laptops on docking station with external monitor

[Nathaniel McCallum]

On 10/05/2010 11:53 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 09:35 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Maybe just 'lid closed and external monitor connected' would be close
> enough? Is there a use case where you'd want to have an external monitor
> connected and the internal system's lid closed, but still have the
> internal system's display turned on?

FYI, doing so could damage the laptop.

Nathaniel