[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Override disabling LVDS on lid closure

[Barry Scott]

On 10/02/10 21:44, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:39:53 -0800, Eric Anholt<eric at anholt.net>  wrote:
>    
>> On Tue,  9 Feb 2010 12:54:17 +0000, Chris Wilson<chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>  wrote:
>>      
>>> In order to conserve space, my test machines have their lids closed. This
>>> has the unfortunate consequence that on some machines the LVDS is
>>> disable, resulting in no connected scanout triggering further complaints
>>> from programs that demand an output! Workaround these obstinate programs
>>> by providing a command line option to ignore the lid status and thereby
>>> force the output to be connected.
>>>        
>> Can't you just tell your X to suck it up and use a fixed mode?
>>      
> Don't get me started on X's inability to run without a fb or console...
> Not at the moment, Keith promised me a patch a few months ago to allow X
> to start without any modes detected...
>
> This is also useful for non-X KMS applications, but as this has little
> appeal outside of the devs, I'm quite happy to carry this in my own tree.
> Just throwing it out in case anybody else found it useful. :-)
> -ickle
>    
Is this releated to X not starting if you do  not have a display
plugged in?

In embedded applications its requires that X starts no matter what
detection thinks is plugged in or not plugged in. We have patched intel
driver in the past to force X to start.

Barry