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

Pasi Kärkkäinen pasik at iki.fi
Sun Jul 24 11:13:24 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 08:52:08AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 23:14 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 09:56:11AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 13:46 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > 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? 
> > > 
> > > I don't recall, it may well have been just an IRC conversation. A bug
> > > report would certainly be a good idea, then we won't lose track of it
> > > again =)
> > >
> > 
> > Ok :)
> > 
> > Should I file it against xorg or anaconda? 
> 
> The basic bug - 'anaconda should run in clone not span mode' - against
> anaconda. Depending on how that bug goes, we may wind up filing some
> kind of enhancement request for X, I guess.
>

Done.

"anaconda should run in clone not span mode":
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725219


-- Pasi



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