On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 02:51:59PM +0200, Jerome Glisse wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 03:31:19PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > Hello, > > > > After fixing the dvi/hdmi detection problem I now have another problem > > with the HP EliteBook 8530p, which has Radeon 3650HD adapter. > > > > Here's a summary of the environment: > > > > - laptop connected to a docking station. > > - external display in use, connected with DVI to the dock. > > - laptop lid closed, so internal LVDS display is not used. > > > > Now, when I start the laptop, I can see the BIOS and grub on the external DVI display. > > All fine so far. I select the Fedora 13 kernel, and Linux starts. I see the Fedora > > graphical boot on the external DVI display, just like it should be. GDM login prompt > > appears on the external DVI display, still everything fine. > > > > And then it goes wrong. After I login to X, the external display only shows the background > > picture.. it turns out the desktop stuff has been started to the internal LVDS display, > > which shouldn't be used at all since the laptop lid is closed!! > > > > When the laptop lid is closed, and external display is connected, I want to use only the external display.. > > > > Any ideas how to troubleshoot this one? > > > > -- Pasi > > > > It's better to open bug when you face issue rather than mail, as it's > harder to track information in mail thread than in a bug. Your issue > is not easily fixed because there is many laptop with broken acpi which > report wrong lid status (some of them always report lid closed what ever > is the lid status, other always report lid open, ... i am not expert on > how broken this is but from what i have been told i should rather consider > drinking than trying to look into it and then go to the drinking step). > Hey, I'm from Finland, so drinking and debugging is not a problem ;) > Bottom line is that lid detection is unreliable thus so far we ignore > it silently. I think the plan is to monitor lid status change and if > we detect change from either open to close or close to open then we > can start assuming that acpi lid status is reliable and act accordingly. > I hate to play the "windows card" but the lid detection seems to work in windows.. so there's a way to make it work :) -- Pasi _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
