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

[Chris Wilson]

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

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre