I recently made a post about my FreeSync certified monitor not supporting VRR over HDMI. I thought that there was VRR support over HDMI even for versions below 2.1 spec. Am I mistaken in my assumption¿? Has the HDMI forum prevented the implementation of FreeSync in the open source drivers¿?

Obligatory fuck the HDMI forum and the HDMI spec.

  • kitnaht@lemmy.world
    112·
    3 months ago

    So just switch to DisplayPort…in fact, it would have been easier to just buy a displayport cable than it would have been to make this post.

    • Sentau@discuss.tchncs.deOP
      10·
      3 months ago

      My laptop has no DisplayPort. Hell the monitor came with a DP cable as standard but because my Laptop has no DP port(not even through usb-c), I had to shell out for an HDMI cable

      • kitnaht@lemmy.world
        25·
        3 months ago

        You’re using an operating system specifically because it is free and open source, and then complaining when a closed, proprietary, licensed spec isn’t implemented. So you’re right, there sure are…looks like there are at least half a dozen of them so far.

        • Sentau@discuss.tchncs.deOP
          31·
          3 months ago

          Well frankly, I dont actually care much about VRR. The post was only to gather information because I saw some conflicting info. I agree that expecting an implementation of a proprietary spec in open source is foolish and people should be willing to make some sacrifices in exchange of freedom. What I do request is that you dont be ass about it when you recommend DP.

            • Sentau@discuss.tchncs.deOP
              1·
              3 months ago

              Well I usually also look past the auto generated answer because that is not 100% accurate. Digging through many forums, I found comments like these which caused some confusion. The common thread between everybody claiming to have FreeSync is that they are running X11. I just thought since adaptive sync/freesync is a hardware feature, if(and it is a big if as I dont think VRR works for them even if it shows as enabled in the X11 configs) these people have it running on X11, maybe there is a way to get it running on Wayland.

              There was this article as well which added to the confusion.

          • kitnaht@lemmy.world
            24·
            3 months ago

            Kinda weird. When every time you have this interaction…starts to make you wonder if maybe there’s some sort of reason…