Making Fedora work with laptops on docking station with external monitor

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> 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.

That would be about 500 across Europe then :-P unfortunately probably
only 5-10% run linux but happily Fedora seems to be the one that
people have best luck with over the other alternatives (including
using evolution with exchange).

Peter