Linux Developers To Meet Again To Work On HDR, Color Management & VRR (www.phoronix.com)
from ylai@lemmy.ml to linux@lemmy.ml on 18 Feb 2024 18:33
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autotldr@lemmings.world on 18 Feb 2024 18:35 next collapse

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Last April was a display/HDR hackfest hosted in the Czech Republic by Red Hat.

Another Linux display hackfest has been announced for this year so upstream stakeholders can collaborate around high dynamic range (HDR) monitor support, color management, variable refresh rate (VRR), and other topics.

Melissa Wen with Igalia shared that they will be hosting this year’s display hackfest in A Coruña, Spain at the consulting firm’s offices.

They hope to better collaborate over future display stack improvements around HDR, VRR, and related topics.

Melissa and Igalia have been working with AMD and Valve in particular a lot on the AMD color management support, enabling HDR use-cases for Valve with the Steam Deck (OLED), and more.

There’s also ongoing work within the GNOME camp around VRR, enabling HDR on the desktop, etc.


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Rustmilian@lemmy.world on 18 Feb 2024 18:59 next collapse

Are the Gnome devs going to be there?

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 18 Feb 2024 19:07 next collapse

Probably

Rustmilian@lemmy.world on 18 Feb 2024 19:36 collapse

I certainly hope so.

[deleted] on 18 Feb 2024 19:51 next collapse

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[deleted] on 18 Feb 2024 20:04 next collapse

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Sethayy@sh.itjust.works on 18 Feb 2024 20:39 collapse

"There’s also ongoing work within the GNOME camp around VRR, enabling HDR on the desktop, etc. "

Right there. Right in the article dog. You think desktops dont render or something? And even without that you think they could have absolutely no valuable input being there?

All I gotta say is I only see one moron in this comment section and it ain’t the root comment

Rustmilian@lemmy.world on 18 Feb 2024 23:27 collapse

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Rustmilian@lemmy.world on 18 Feb 2024 22:42 collapse

…hosting this year’s display hackfest… They hope to better collaborate over future display stack improvements around HDR, VRR, and related topics… There’s also ongoing work within the GNOME camp around VRR, enabling HDR on the desktop, etc.

Had nothing to do with Gnome

Did you even read it?

Apparently you don’t understand the difference between rendering and a desktop environment. Sad

Mutter, word of advice; next time lookup the topic before you make a massive asshole in a clown costume out of yourself.

Unyieldingly@lemmy.world on 18 Feb 2024 20:05 collapse

Looks like it.

github.com/melissawen/…/list-of-participants

Rustmilian@lemmy.world on 18 Feb 2024 23:08 collapse

Thanks for sharing

just_another_person@lemmy.world on 18 Feb 2024 19:48 next collapse

Why is the Steam Deck the cover image? It does quite well for those things.

TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world on 18 Feb 2024 21:01 next collapse

Melissa and Igalia have been working with AMD and Valve in particular a lot on the AMD color management support, enabling HDR use-cases for Valve with the Steam Deck (OLED), and more. There’s also ongoing work within the GNOME camp around VRR, enabling HDR on the desktop, etc.

The pic of the Decks appear below that.

just_another_person@lemmy.world on 18 Feb 2024 22:51 collapse

Not for me

TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world on 19 Feb 2024 07:43 collapse

I’m sceptical that Phoronix is sending you a different version of their article than what everybody else is seeing.

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sosodev@lemmy.world on 19 Feb 2024 02:05 collapse

Err… no it doesn’t. There are so many bug reports of neither HDR nor VRR working properly with the steam deck. My deck won’t even dock properly with my TV after recent updates.

It’s better than most other linuxes in the sense that it works sometimes I guess.

domi@lemmy.secnd.me on 19 Feb 2024 08:24 collapse

Are you using the official dock? If so, you might have to RMA it.

The first firmware update on my OLED deck messed it up and it stopped outputting anything. The one I got now outputs HDR and VRR with no issues.

sosodev@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 2024 01:51 collapse

Thanks for the tip. I might have to try that. It was working mostly fine one day (no VRR) and then it was completely broken the next. :(

GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org on 18 Feb 2024 23:28 next collapse

What’s the problem with the current VRR support? I don’t recall ever having problems with G-Sync.

blobjim@hexbear.net on 18 Feb 2024 23:51 next collapse

Does it currently only work for fullscreen games or something like that? This might be more about full operating/windowing system support. Like changing the setting in GNOME Settings, having VRR on the desktop for normal windows, etc.

sosodev@lemmy.world on 19 Feb 2024 02:11 collapse

VRR isn’t supported by default by most distros. Just because it works with your setup doesn’t mean it works for others.

Also, this event seems to be primarily focused on AMD/Mesa support.

GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org on 19 Feb 2024 02:57 next collapse

Thanks, makes sense. I’ll have to read up on this before I jump ship to AMD.

Rustmilian@lemmy.world on 19 Feb 2024 08:19 collapse

VRR isn’t supported by default by most distros…

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umbrella@lemmy.ml on 19 Feb 2024 01:23 next collapse

are they having problems?

manos_de_papel@lemmy.ml on 19 Feb 2024 01:41 next collapse

Please for the love of everything, a full, working color management stack.

gayhitler420@lemm.ee on 19 Feb 2024 02:30 next collapse

The problem is color management.

Apple solved it by taking control over both the display and the software stack that drives it.

Linux developers only have access to half of that.

phoenixz@lemmy.ca on 19 Feb 2024 07:07 collapse

Are the KDE devs going to be there? I’d love to get HDR and VRR on KDE

Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.de on 20 Feb 2024 12:22 collapse

Yes, though it’s not exactly relevant to your wishes… KWin has supported VRR for almost three years now, and HDR for 9 months too (not released yet ofc). I’ve been playing all my HDR capable games in HDR mode for the past few months.

For me, this is more about making it more efficient and make it work better by default.