On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 19:05 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 08:53:12AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > Maybe just 'lid closed and external monitor connected' would be close > > enough? Is there a use case where you'd want to have an external monitor > > connected and the internal system's lid closed, but still have the > > internal system's display turned on? > > No, but there is a use case where you'd want to have an external monitor > connected and the system report that the lid is closed, but still have > the internal system's display turned on. Hardware lies. that is a hardware/kernel/acpi bug. The appropriate way to fix it, IMHO, is to have the sensor report the correct information if it's at all possible to fix it in the kernel/acpi layer, or if not, blacklist that specific system so that its lid sensor is completely ignored. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
