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Intel Has A New Driver For Linux 5.12: Reporting Your Laptop's Hinge/Keyboard Angle
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Originally posted by Sonadow View Post
It's not like the operating system will adjust the display's brightness or activate its digital privacy feature based on the angle, and I sure as hell don't want that happening.
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Originally posted by Yttrium View PostMaybe its just me, but what could this possibly be used for? Is it even used in OEM software or windows?
My laptop turns off the display at a near closed angle, as someone else mentions this is handled by the BIOS probably, but with this driver your system could respond to that event and do something if you wanted it to (turn off wifi or other things maybe if it's not supporting S3/suspend? switch to powersave profiles, etc).
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Originally posted by Yttrium View PostMaybe its just me, but what could this possibly be used for? Is it even used in OEM software or windows?
Originally posted by elattlatIt could not know the difference between table /\ and bed \¯ (or inclined stand ¦ ) with a single accelerometer under the keyboard
Originally posted by George99Playing an "oh nooo" clip when the laptop slips off from the table.
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So many great comments in this thead.
Interesting.
Funnily enough, my old Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro autodetects the screen position (landscape/portrait and laptop/tablet position)... the laptop/tablet thing needs Windows to work correctly (and switched between "desktop" Windows 8.1 and "tablet mode" Windows 8.1) but the landscape/portrait detection appeared to be completely independent of OS, as it worked in both Linux and Windows. I also remember shutting it down once in "tablet portrait" mode, and it displaying the Lenovo logo in portrait mode when I turned it back on later... but to be honest I have no idea whether that was correct or not, as Windows loaded in laptop/landscape mode.
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