On 10/05/2010 11:53 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 09:35 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 5 October 2010 05:30, Orion Poplawski <orion(a)cora.nwra.com> wrote:
>> Are we really stuck with gdm/kdm/lxdm/...dm
>> implementing it?
>
> No, I think what we need to do is to teach GPM how to turn off the
> internal panel when docked and with the lid closed. The only missing
> piece is for the kernel to export some kind of sysfs boolean saying
> "in-dock". From talks with mjg59, detecting a dock is pretty hard.
Maybe just 'lid closed and external monitor connected' would be close
enough? Is there a use case where you'd want to have an external monitor
connected and the internal system's lid closed, but still have the
internal system's display turned on?
FYI, doing so could damage the laptop.
Nathaniel