[RFC PATCH] xfree86: Lid status hack

[Adam Jackson]

On 7/30/12 4:08 PM, Alex Deucher wrote:
> 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.

That only really works if you defer all output setup until the session. 
  Which actually isn't a bad idea if it's sufficiently opt-in.

Or, if it's something we inherit from odev enumeration.

I agree it's not something xserver should care about as a policy maker, 
but we do currently have implicit policy in the server for initial setup.

- ajax