On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 01:16 +0200, Andrei Paskevich wrote: > Currently, the LVDS connector on i915-equipped laptops > is always reported as connected, regardless of the lid > state and presence of external monitors. This was done > because of too many BIOSes reporting lid status in > an unreliable way. However, in a quite usual setup of > a laptop attached to an external monitor, the only way > to obtain the monitor's resolution on boot is to disable > the LVDS via the boot command line, which is unfortunate > as one have to reboot to get the internal screen back.
If ACPI lid status were even remotely reliable for Intel machines, this might be a good idea. - ajax -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/attachments/20100811/6aaf4298/attachment-0001.pgp>
