On 10/05/2010 02:16 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > 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. Agreed, the hardware may lie, but the kernel is the arbiter of truth, at least in this case. Nathaniel -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
