On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Pasi K?rkk?inen <pasik at iki.fi> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:12:51AM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Francisco Jerez <currojerez at riseup.net> >> wrote: >> > Jerome Glisse <glisse at freedesktop.org> writes: >> > >> >> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 03:31:19PM +0300, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote: >> >>> Hello, >> >>> >> >>> After fixing the dvi/hdmi detection problem I now have another problem >> >>> with the HP EliteBook 8530p, which has Radeon 3650HD adapter. >> >>> >> >>> Here's a summary of the environment: >> >>> >> >>> ? ? ?- laptop connected to a docking station. >> >>> ? ? ?- external display in use, connected with DVI to the dock. >> >>> ? ? ?- laptop lid closed, so internal LVDS display is not used. >> >>> >> >>> Now, when I start the laptop, I can see the BIOS and grub on the >> >>> external DVI display. >> >>> All fine so far. I select the Fedora 13 kernel, and Linux starts. I see >> >>> the Fedora >> >>> graphical boot on the external DVI display, just like it should be. GDM >> >>> login prompt >> >>> appears on the external DVI display, still everything fine. >> >>> >> >>> And then it goes wrong. After I login to X, the external display only >> >>> shows the background >> >>> picture.. it turns out the desktop stuff has been started to the >> >>> internal LVDS display, >> >>> which shouldn't be used at all since the laptop lid is closed!! >> >>> >> >>> When the laptop lid is closed, and external display is connected, I want >> >>> to use only the external display.. >> >>> >> >>> Any ideas how to troubleshoot this one? >> >> Does it work ok if you boot up without the external display connected >> and then connect and enable the secondary display after you've logged >> in? >> > > I just tried this. > > I boot up the laptop with lid open, so ONLY the internal LVDS is active > (DVI cable disconnected), and I get the GDM login prompt on the internal LVDS. > > Then I plug in the external DVI display, and the external display > gets automatically active when X starts. Gnome panel etc are on the internal > LVDS, > external DVI display only has the background image and nothing else. > > So that works as expected. No problems there. > >> ?I have a similar issue here; ?I think it's an issue with rhgb and >> starting X. ?If I boot with an external display, the entire plymouth >> load sequence works fine, but then when X starts the external display >> goes blank and the internal display hangs on the plymouth screen. ?On >> a related note, if I close the lid and turn off the LVDS output, gpm >> never blanks the external monitor. ?I have to manually force dpms with >> xset. >> > > The other patch (0001-drm-radeon-kms-fix-shared-ddc-handling.patch) applied > my system mostly works now, but here's a summary about the problem I still > have > with the lid detection: > > - I boot up the laptop with lid closed (LVDS inactive) so there's only > external > DVI display connected. Kernel boot messages show up on the external DVI > display, > and GDM login prompt appears on the external DVI display. All fine so far. > > - The actual problem: when X starts gnome panel etc show up on the internal > LVDS > display, which I can't see at all since the lid is closed! So those should go > to the > external DVI display only.. LVDS should be disconnected or inactive or > something.. > > Any pointers appreciated where to look at in the source.. I can do some > debugging.
Your desktop session manager should check the lid status when it loads and attempt to do the right thing if there is an external monitor detected. Alex
