Bug#577724: xserver-xorg-video-intel: Fail to start when laptop's LID closed

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 02:54 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
>   
>> Frank Lin PIAT <fpiat@klabs.be> (14/04/2010):
>>     
>>> I have an anoying problem when I close my laptop lid during the
>>> computer startup (i.e between grub and Xorg initialisation): Xorg
>>> fails to start.
>>>
>>> Restarting gdm with the laptop lid open works.
>>>       
>> What do you expect it to do?
>>     
>
> Some magic to detect that it's a laptop, which lid is closed [but
> present] ;-)
>   

This might have changed between 2.6.33 and 2.6.34. The intel guys
apparently dropped some detection code that detects the lid status.

At least on my laptop, booting with lid closed and DVI plugged gives me
both outputs enabled with 2.6.34 while lid would be off with 2.6.33.

Brice