On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 11:16:44AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 19:05 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > 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. I wholeheartedly agree, providing that we can obtain a list of every piece of hardware that has this issue, along with a list of every piece of hardware that will have it in future. If that's not available then userspace is just going to have to deal. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
