[RFC PATCH] xfree86: Lid status hack

[Alex Deucher]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> wrote:
> If more than one output is connected, and there's only one ACPI lid
> device, proxy the state of the lid into the LVDS / eDP connectivity.
> This way we don't suffer from broken lid-status from the firmware in
> a way that would result in nothing lighting up.
>
> This is terribly Linux-specific and I don't think we should merge it
> as-is, I'm mostly trying to generate some discussion.  There's some
> weird corner cases that come out of this since we're still doing the
> "poke one thing at a time" model, and we don't explicitly turn _off_
> outputs during initial setup, so X and kernel's view of the world
> gets out of sync.
>
> I think ideally we'd do this in the DRM, but I was unable to come up
> with a clean way to do it there.  Maybe it just needs to be ugly.

Seems like something X shouldn't care about.  Too many ways to do the
wrong thing.  Maybe just report always report connected for LVDS/eDP
and let the desktop environment figure out what to light up based on
lid state, saved preferences, etc.

Alex