At Wed, 24 Nov 2010 14:35:17 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 03:31:11PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > Typically GNOME changes to the next monitor mode (e.g. xinearama, > > clone, laptop-only, external-only) by each XF86VideoSwitch key event. > > If you connect your laptop to a monitor, and sets to clone mode, > > close the lid, and reopen. Then you'll find the video mode is now > > external-monitor only. It's because two XF86VideoSwitch key events > > are issued during close/open the lid. > > That's not what that keystroke is expected to do. Userspace needs to > either interpret it as "Reprobe devices" or pay attention to the > configuration that the firmware requested. Unfortunately, this is the standard behavior on most desktops :-< Fn-F4 (or whatever) media key produces this exact key code, and the desktops (including Windows) expect this behavior. thanks, Takashi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
