Making Fedora work with laptops on docking station with external monitor

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 07:53:25PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> >> The BIOS generally manages to get that one correct, can we not query
> >> and keep the current state on boot?
> >
> > It really doesn't.
> 
> Seems to work just fine from a user perspective. Not that I ever use
> it like that as I use my laptop as a second screen but of an office of
> 100% laptops I would think about 50% of the 100 or so people on my
> floor use it as such.

There's a *lot* of machines that consistently report an incorrect state.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org