On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 23:32 +0300, Pasi KÃrkkÃinen wrote: > What's the worst thing that can happen when trusting the ACPI lid state? > > Think about this: > > - Laptop lid open (so internal lvds enabled), and also external monitor connected. > - lid state is wrong at boot, so it says lid closed. > - Scripts check: "lid closed, external display enabled -> use only external monitor". > > That gives you a working setup, you can login using the external display, > and use the system perfectly fine. You can then manually enable the > internal lvds display, or possibly enable some workaround, > as you have a buggy laptop/driver/bios. > > That doesn't sound bad at all. However, it's not the worst case. The worst case is if someone has an external monitor connected which they're not actually using (it may be hidden or being used with some other input or just turned off). This does happen: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=582525 that bug is already inconvenient for some people; if they have laptops with bad lid switches it'd be much more inconvenient. The only active display would be the external display they weren't actually using. -- 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
