This has been a deliberate move by the upstream developers, who were finding that many laptops lied about their lid status and so would disable the laptop screen. When there were no other monitors plugged in this obviously made those systems totally unsuable, and there were a continual stream of bugs about different laptops being broken by this.
That said, the Nouveau project responded to the same sort of bugs by setting the laptop screen's status as “unknown” if the lid was down, which causes the screen to be disabled unless there's definitely no other display plugged in. That might be a workable solution for -intel, too. ** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low -- [gm45] X should consider laptop monitor disconnected if lid is closed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/565094 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
