Making Fedora work with laptops on docking station with external monitor

[Nathaniel McCallum]

On 10/06/2010 12:50 PM, Till Maas wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 11:22:44AM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> 
>> Well, I guess some people would want the laptop to suspend, but it's a
>> very good question. Now all it needs is someone willing and able to
>> write a little patch for me :-)
> 
> Do you know which components need patching to make Fedora work
> flawlessly with docking stations? I noticed problems, too, but even
> bigger problems to find out how the information flows e.g. if a notebook
> is inserted or ejected from a docking station. On thinkpads it seems not
> generate some event that cycles through the output configurations.

I'm pretty sure docking stations are irrelevant to this whole thread.
The issue is about lids and video outputs.  If you think lids are all
over the place (as mjg59 points out), docks are even worse.  Lets not
drag them into the conversation if they don't need to be.

Nathaniel