Re: [Nouveau] Why do non-lvds monitors default to dithering these days?
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Maarten Maathuis madman2...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Maarten Maathuis madman2...@gmail.com wrote: In the past we assumed that external displays did their own dithering if needed. GPU based dithering is only needed for laptop displays if i had to guess. I was almost thinking my monitor was malfunctioning because of strange barely visible flickering. Now it *seems* as if dithering was the problem, although time will have to tell, because it's subtle to see these effects. Ofcource i can try and find a way to set the connector property more permanently (if anyone has suggestions besides sticking an xrandr command in my .xinitrc please let me know), but i don't see why we would need to assume that anything but lvds and eDP needs to be dithered. -- Far away from the primal instinct, the song seems to fade away, the river get wider between your thoughts and the things we do and say. Ping. -- Far away from the primal instinct, the song seems to fade away, the river get wider between your thoughts and the things we do and say. Anyone? -- Far away from the primal instinct, the song seems to fade away, the river get wider between your thoughts and the things we do and say. ___ Nouveau mailing list Nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
Re: [Nouveau] Why do non-lvds monitors default to dithering these days?
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Maarten Maathuis madman2...@gmail.com wrote: In the past we assumed that external displays did their own dithering if needed. GPU based dithering is only needed for laptop displays if i had to guess. I was almost thinking my monitor was malfunctioning because of strange barely visible flickering. Now it *seems* as if dithering was the problem, although time will have to tell, because it's subtle to see these effects. Ofcource i can try and find a way to set the connector property more permanently (if anyone has suggestions besides sticking an xrandr command in my .xinitrc please let me know), but i don't see why we would need to assume that anything but lvds and eDP needs to be dithered. -- Far away from the primal instinct, the song seems to fade away, the river get wider between your thoughts and the things we do and say. Ping. -- Far away from the primal instinct, the song seems to fade away, the river get wider between your thoughts and the things we do and say. ___ Nouveau mailing list Nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
[Nouveau] Why do non-lvds monitors default to dithering these days?
In the past we assumed that external displays did their own dithering if needed. GPU based dithering is only needed for laptop displays if i had to guess. I was almost thinking my monitor was malfunctioning because of strange barely visible flickering. Now it *seems* as if dithering was the problem, although time will have to tell, because it's subtle to see these effects. Ofcource i can try and find a way to set the connector property more permanently (if anyone has suggestions besides sticking an xrandr command in my .xinitrc please let me know), but i don't see why we would need to assume that anything but lvds and eDP needs to be dithered. -- Far away from the primal instinct, the song seems to fade away, the river get wider between your thoughts and the things we do and say. ___ Nouveau mailing list Nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
