Poll: Does ACPI lid state work on your Linux laptop?

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:44:21AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 15:21 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 05:01:11PM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 23:44 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > > > Hello list,
> > > > 
> > > > I'm curious to know how many laptops have problems with
> > > > ACPI lid state in Linux. I've been told some laptops report
> > > > wrong lid state through ACPI, while my laptop seems to report it properly.
> > > 
> > > Once you have this data, what do you intend to do with it?
> > > 
> > 
> > Good question. I was just curious to know how widespread problem that is.
> > 
> > I tend to use my laptop in the docking station, only using external monitor,
> > so it's annoying when testing new alpha/beta/final Fedora releases
> > and Fedora uses the internal lvds, under the *closed* lid, as a primary display..
> > ie. the installer/livedesktop is not visible at all on my setup, until I open the lid.
> > 
> > So just trying to find some kind of workaround to that..
> > Using "clone-mode" as a default would solve the problem.. 
> > (now the default mode in Fedora is to use "extended desktop")
> 
> I think I recall discussing this with the anaconda team before; we
> agreed in principle that it would make sense for anaconda to default to
> clone mode, but the problem is X doesn't have any very easy mechanism
> for overriding the default, there is no simple command line parameter
> anaconda could pass to X to launch it in clone mode instead of span
> mode. anaconda would have to include an X config stub to specify clone
> mode and then ensure that stub wasn't installed. I think no-one got
> around to getting that done yet. I'm not sure if there's a bug for it,
> but you could have a look.
>

Did you mean Redhat bugzilla or Freedesktop/Xorg bugzilla? 
With some searching I couldn't find one.. should I file a bugreport/rfe? 

-- Pasi