There seem to be indeed some awkwards machines around, mostly those
without OpRegion support, where the firmware changes the display hw
state behind our backs when closing the lid.
This force-restore logic has been originally introduced in
commit c1c7af6089
Author: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Date: Thu Sep 10 15:28:03 2009 -0700
drm/i915: force mode set at lid open time
but after the modeset-rework we've disabled it in the vain hope that
it's no longer required:
commit 3b7a89fce3
Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Date: Mon Sep 17 22:27:21 2012 +0200
drm/i915: fix OOPS in lid_notify
Alas, no.
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54677
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57434
Tested-by: Krzysztof Mazur <krzysiek@podlesie.net>
Reviewed-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
45e2b5f640