Making Fedora work with laptops on docking station with external monitor

[Nathaniel McCallum]

On 10/05/2010 02:16 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 19:05 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 08:53:12AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> No, but there is a use case where you'd want to have an external monitor 
>> connected and the system report that the lid is closed, but still have 
>> the internal system's display turned on. Hardware lies.
> 
> that is a hardware/kernel/acpi bug. The appropriate way to fix it, IMHO,
> is to have the sensor report the correct information if it's at all
> possible to fix it in the kernel/acpi layer, or if not, blacklist that
> specific system so that its lid sensor is completely ignored.

Agreed, the hardware may lie, but the kernel is the arbiter of truth, at
least in this case.

Nathaniel