Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-11-13 Thread Stephen Morris
On 13/11/24 19:31, Barry wrote: On 12 Nov 2024, at 21:50, Stephen Morris wrote: I suspect Xorg as I don't like Wayland because it has never worked properly with KDE I have been running kde under wayland for a while now. I had to tweak my editor to have it pop to the top of the window stack,

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-11-13 Thread Barry
> On 12 Nov 2024, at 21:50, Stephen Morris wrote: > > I suspect Xorg as I don't like Wayland because it has never worked properly > with KDE I have been running kde under wayland for a while now. I had to tweak my editor to have it pop to the top of the window stack, but otherwise things just

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-11-12 Thread Stephen Morris
On 12/11/24 19:43, Barry wrote: On 11 Nov 2024, at 22:08, Stephen Morris wrote: I know we have touched on this before, if kscreen-doctor can determine that HDR is enabled on the monitor, but the KDE settings don't show the HDR interface, is it really non-standard hardware interfaces or is it

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-11-12 Thread Barry
> On 11 Nov 2024, at 22:08, Stephen Morris wrote: > > I know we have touched on this before, if kscreen-doctor can determine that > HDR is enabled on the monitor, but the KDE settings don't show the HDR > interface, is it really non-standard hardware interfaces or is it a defect in > the KDE

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-11-11 Thread Stephen Morris
On 12/11/24 08:29, Barry wrote: On 11 Nov 2024, at 21:14, Stephen Morris wrote: Just one query on this, how do we know if the command did anything if HDR was already flagged as enabled? What I did was use kscreen-doctor to query the state. It said hdr disabled. I used the command to enabled.

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-11-11 Thread Barry
> On 11 Nov 2024, at 21:14, Stephen Morris wrote: > > Just one query on this, how do we know if the command did anything if HDR was > already flagged as enabled? What I did was use kscreen-doctor to query the state. It said hdr disabled. I used the command to enabled. I repeated the query, it

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-11-11 Thread Stephen Morris
On 11/11/24 21:07, Barry Scott wrote: On 11 Nov 2024, at 02:28, Samuel Sieb wrote: I don't know if that's a permanent setting, but either way, it's only for the current user. In my testing it was permanent, at least it survived a reboot. I did not do a full cold boot. Just one query on th

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-11-11 Thread Barry Scott
> On 11 Nov 2024, at 02:28, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > I don't know if that's a permanent setting, but either way, it's only for the > current user. In my testing it was permanent, at least it survived a reboot. I did not do a full cold boot. Barry -- __

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-11-10 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/10/24 2:03 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 10/11/24 10:06, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/9/24 2:43 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 10/11/24 04:41, Barry Scott wrote: On 8 Nov 2024, at 22:59, Stephen Morris wrote: Just as a matter of interest what brand monitor do you use. I use a Dell Ultra

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-11-10 Thread Stephen Morris
On 10/11/24 13:46, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2024-11-10 at 01:29 +, Steve Underwood wrote: I don't think anyone has mentioned which graphics hardware they are using. I'm not sure the HDR support is equal amongst them. As someone who's worked in video production since the 1980s, I've trie

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-11-10 Thread Stephen Morris
On 10/11/24 12:29, Steve Underwood wrote: On 08/11/2024 22:59, Stephen Morris wrote: Just as a matter of interest what brand monitor do you use. I've had a look at some LG 4K monitors with HDR10 and HDR 400, and it seems that with those to get all the features of the monitor available (presuma

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-11-10 Thread Stephen Morris
On 10/11/24 10:06, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 11/9/24 2:43 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 10/11/24 04:41, Barry Scott wrote: On 8 Nov 2024, at 22:59, Stephen Morris wrote: Just as a matter of interest what brand monitor do you use. I use a Dell Ultra HDR and also have a LG HDR monitor. The Del

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-11-09 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2024-11-10 at 01:29 +, Steve Underwood wrote: > I don't think anyone has mentioned which graphics hardware they are > using. I'm not sure the HDR support is equal amongst them. As someone who's worked in video production since the 1980s, I've tried it on my TVs, with appropriate video

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-11-09 Thread Steve Underwood
On 08/11/2024 22:59, Stephen Morris wrote: Just as a matter of interest what brand monitor do you use. I've had a look at some LG 4K monitors with HDR10 and HDR 400, and it seems that with those to get all the features of the monitor available (presumably HDR, on screen mouse controlled configu

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-11-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 11/9/24 2:43 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: On 10/11/24 04:41, Barry Scott wrote: On 8 Nov 2024, at 22:59, Stephen Morris wrote: Just as a matter of interest what brand monitor do you use. I use a Dell Ultra HDR and also have a LG HDR monitor. The Dell has the HDR checkbox in the Display S

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-11-09 Thread Stephen Morris
On 10/11/24 04:41, Barry Scott wrote: On 8 Nov 2024, at 22:59, Stephen Morris wrote: Just as a matter of interest what brand monitor do you use. I use a Dell Ultra HDR and also have a LG HDR monitor. The Dell has the HDR checkbox in the Display Settings. But the LG needed me to enable HD

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-11-09 Thread Barry Scott
> On 8 Nov 2024, at 22:59, Stephen Morris wrote: > > Just as a matter of interest what brand monitor do you use. I use a Dell Ultra HDR and also have a LG HDR monitor. The Dell has the HDR checkbox in the Display Settings. But the LG needed me to enable HDR using the kscreen-doctor command.

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-11-08 Thread Stephen Morris
On 7/11/24 08:43, Stephen Morris wrote: On 6/11/24 20:40, Barry Scott wrote: On 5 Nov 2024, at 22:10, Stephen Morris wrote: In my case I need a BENQ EL2870U driver to get HDR enabled in Windows. That would indicate they have a non-standard implementation in the monitor. Unless someone a

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-11-06 Thread Stephen Morris
On 6/11/24 20:40, Barry Scott wrote: On 5 Nov 2024, at 22:10, Stephen Morris wrote: In my case I need a BENQ EL2870U driver to get HDR enabled in Windows. That would indicate they have a non-standard implementation in the monitor. Unless someone adds a way to support that to linux I do n

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-11-06 Thread Barry Scott
> On 5 Nov 2024, at 22:10, Stephen Morris wrote: > > In my case I need a BENQ EL2870U driver to get HDR enabled in Windows. That would indicate they have a non-standard implementation in the monitor. Unless someone adds a way to support that to linux I do not think HDR will work. Barry -- _

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-11-05 Thread Stephen Morris
On 16/10/24 20:51, Barry Scott wrote: Do you use the monitor with windows and if so does it need a monitor specific driver to activate HDR in Windows or does it work with the Generic driver? In my case I need a BENQ EL2870U driver to get HDR enabled in Windows. What is the EDID for your moni

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-10-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2024-10-16 at 22:39 +0100, Barry wrote: > > > On 16 Oct 2024, at 17:32, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > Or (once again) the Fedora KDE mailing list. > > I left that list off on the basis that I do not think any one with knowledge > of hdr read that email list. I'd call that a stran

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-10-16 Thread Barry
> On 16 Oct 2024, at 17:32, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Or (once again) the Fedora KDE mailing list. I left that list off on the basis that I do not think any one with knowledge of hdr read that email list. Barry -- ___ users mailing list --

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-10-16 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2024-10-16 at 14:45 +0100, Barry Scott wrote: > You could use the kde bug tracker https://bugs.kde.org/ or the kde discuss > forum https://discuss.kde.org Or (once again) the Fedora KDE mailing list. poc -- ___ users mailing list -- users@list

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-10-16 Thread Barry Scott
> On 16 Oct 2024, at 13:28, Stephen Morris wrote: > > On 16/10/24 20:51, Barry Scott wrote: >> > For me it does show that info. > > > edid-decode /sys/class/drm/card1/card1-HDMI-A-1/edid > Basic Display Parameters & Features: >Digital display >Maximum image size: 62 cm x 34 cm >

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-10-16 Thread Stephen Morris via users
On 16/10/24 20:51, Barry Scott wrote: On 15 Oct 2024, at 11:44, Barry Scott wrote: When I get a moment o investigate I will have a look at EDID and see if there is where the HDR info if returned from the monitor. I have not looked at that level of details yet, so things to learn about. I

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-10-16 Thread Barry Scott
> On 15 Oct 2024, at 11:44, Barry Scott wrote: > > When I get a moment o investigate I will have a look at EDID and see if there > is where the HDR > info if returned from the monitor. I have not looked at that level of details > yet, so things to learn about. I think I have found the HDR se

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-10-15 Thread Barry Scott
> On 15 Oct 2024, at 08:45, Stephen Morris wrote: > > I'm not disconnecting from the mains. My computer power supply and > motherboard do trickle feed power, at least enough power to drive the mouse > and blueray usb device I have connected. The test I'm suggesting required your unplug from

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-10-15 Thread Stephen Morris via users
On 15/10/24 16:32, Barry wrote: On 14 Oct 2024, at 23:01, Stephen Morris via users wrote: power off my computer and monitor every night and every morning, Just to check you unplug from the mains? If you leave the computer and monitor plugged it will not fully reset. I'm not disconnecting fr

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-10-14 Thread Barry
> On 14 Oct 2024, at 23:01, Stephen Morris via users > wrote: > > power off my computer and monitor every night and every morning, Just to check you unplug from the mains? If you leave the computer and monitor plugged it will not fully reset. Barry --

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-10-14 Thread Barry
> On 14 Oct 2024, at 23:01, Stephen Morris wrote: > > I'll need to see if I can get KDE with Xorg working again too, to see if that > makes a difference. That is unlikely. I expect the issue is between the monitor and the kernel. Does Xorg even have hdr support? I am running out of knowledge

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-10-14 Thread Stephen Morris via users
On 15/10/24 08:42, Barry wrote: On 14 Oct 2024, at 22:21, Stephen Morris wrote: Thanks Barry. I issued the kscreen-doctor -o command and the HDR line in the output specifies "Incapable". Why is this the case when a boot into Windows activates HDR as specified in the Windows settings, and wi

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-10-14 Thread Barry
> On 14 Oct 2024, at 22:21, Stephen Morris wrote: > > Thanks Barry. I issued the kscreen-doctor -o command and the HDR line in the > output specifies "Incapable". Why is this the case when a boot into Windows > activates HDR as specified in the Windows settings, and with "Auto HDR" set > whe

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-10-14 Thread Stephen Morris via users
On 14/10/24 19:53, Barry Scott wrote: On 14 Oct 2024, at 09:27, Stephen Morris via users wrote: I did a search for HDR/hdr in "System Settings" under Ubuntu which pointed my at the Display Configuration but there isn't any settings for HDR on that page. What I see is a search for "hdr"

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-10-14 Thread Barry Scott
> On 14 Oct 2024, at 09:27, Stephen Morris via users > wrote: > > I did a search for HDR/hdr in "System Settings" under Ubuntu which pointed my > at the Display Configuration but there isn't any settings for HDR on that > page. What I see is a search for "hdr" takes me to Display & Monitor/

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-10-14 Thread Stephen Morris via users
On 14/10/24 19:11, Stephen Morris via users wrote: On 14/10/24 09:29, Barry wrote: On 13 Oct 2024, at 01:37, Stephen Morris via users wrote: HI, With the last system update I put on (yesterday) I have been upgraded to Plasma 6.2. One of the enhancements in this version was more supp

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-10-14 Thread Stephen Morris via users
On 14/10/24 09:29, Barry wrote: On 13 Oct 2024, at 01:37, Stephen Morris via users wrote: HI, With the last system update I put on (yesterday) I have been upgraded to Plasma 6.2. One of the enhancements in this version was more support for HDR, but even though my monitor is HDR there

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-10-13 Thread Barry
> On 13 Oct 2024, at 01:37, Stephen Morris via users > wrote: > > HI, > With the last system update I put on (yesterday) I have been upgraded to > Plasma 6.2. One of the enhancements in this version was more support for HDR, > but even though my monitor is HDR there are no HDR settings

Re: HDR Support in KDE

2024-10-13 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2024-10-13 at 11:37 +1100, Stephen Morris via users wrote: > HI, >     With the last system update I put on (yesterday) I have been > upgraded to Plasma 6.2. One of the enhancements in this version was more > support for HDR, but even though my monitor is HDR there are no HDR > settings

HDR Support in KDE

2024-10-12 Thread Stephen Morris via users
HI,     With the last system update I put on (yesterday) I have been upgraded to Plasma 6.2. One of the enhancements in this version was more support for HDR, but even though my monitor is HDR there are no HDR settings in KDE System Settings. Under Gnome with Wayland there are HDR settings. Is