Making Fedora work with laptops on docking station with external monitor

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 11:16:44AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 19:05 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > 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.

I wholeheartedly agree, providing that we can obtain a list of every 
piece of hardware that has this issue, along with a list of every piece 
of hardware that will have it in future. If that's not available then 
userspace is just going to have to deal.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org