Altough Keith's idea is very good I tested here with many systems that
are already working nowadays and it didn't break anything. Including
atom at 945gme, ironlake, sandybridge and ivybridge... including
single and dual channel modes...

Tested-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.v...@gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Keith Packard <kei...@keithp.com> wrote:
> <#part sign=pgpmime>
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:04:41 +0100, Takashi Iwai <ti...@suse.de> wrote:
>
>> Since checking the lid state is tricky and unreliable, the practical
>> check would be simply reading the first LVDS reg and seeing whether it
>> was initialized or not.  It seems that it reads to 0x02 when booted
>> with the lid close, which is LVDS_DETECTED bit.
>
> Right, lid-detect is not useful, so I suggested using the new code path
> only if the LVDS was *not* actually running at startup time. That should
> avoid almost all common cases that work correctly today.
>
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