On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 15:21 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 05:01:11PM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 23:44 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > > > I'm curious to know how many laptops have problems with > > > ACPI lid state in Linux. I've been told some laptops report > > > wrong lid state through ACPI, while my laptop seems to report it properly. > > > > Once you have this data, what do you intend to do with it? > > > > Good question. I was just curious to know how widespread problem that is. > > I tend to use my laptop in the docking station, only using external monitor, > so it's annoying when testing new alpha/beta/final Fedora releases > and Fedora uses the internal lvds, under the *closed* lid, as a primary display.. > ie. the installer/livedesktop is not visible at all on my setup, until I open the lid. > > So just trying to find some kind of workaround to that.. > Using "clone-mode" as a default would solve the problem.. > (now the default mode in Fedora is to use "extended desktop") I think I recall discussing this with the anaconda team before; we agreed in principle that it would make sense for anaconda to default to clone mode, but the problem is X doesn't have any very easy mechanism for overriding the default, there is no simple command line parameter anaconda could pass to X to launch it in clone mode instead of span mode. anaconda would have to include an X config stub to specify clone mode and then ensure that stub wasn't installed. I think no-one got around to getting that done yet. I'm not sure if there's a bug for it, but you could have a look. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
