This week I discovered some details of digital display technology that I was
previously unaware of: pixel formats. I have two Dell P2415Q displays
connected to my computer. One via DisplayPort, the other via HDMI.
The HDMI connected one was misbehaving and showing a dull picture. It turned
out I needed to force the HDMI port of my RX560 graphics card to use RGB output
instead of YCbCr. However, the amdgpu driver does not expose a means to do
this. So, I used an EDID hack to make it look like the display only supported
RGB.
Wesley Moore
👨💻 Software Developer
🌏 Melbourne, Australia
Hi I'm Wes 👋. I like warm weather and tinkering with computers; ranging from small microcontrollers, up to large servers and the operating systems that run upon them. I'm a Rustacean with a fondness for mechanical keyboards. I work at YesLogic on the Prince HTML to PDF converter. Read more on the about page →
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