[PATCH] drm/i915: set LVDS connector status to unknown if the lid is closed

[Adam Jackson]

On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 01:16 +0200, Andrei Paskevich wrote:
> Currently, the LVDS connector on i915-equipped laptops
> is always reported as connected, regardless of the lid 
> state and presence of external monitors. This was done
> because of too many BIOSes reporting lid status in 
> an unreliable way. However, in a quite usual setup of
> a laptop attached to an external monitor, the only way 
> to obtain the monitor's resolution on boot is to disable 
> the LVDS via the boot command line, which is unfortunate 
> as one have to reboot to get the internal screen back.

If ACPI lid status were even remotely reliable for Intel machines, this
might be a good idea.

- ajax
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