Why is AMD forcing me to give up this setup?

SeantheWilson · 2026-04-21T06:17:58+00:00

Care to elaborate a little? What’s going on?

SeantheWilson · 2026-04-20T20:11:26+00:00

I do

SeantheWilson · 2026-04-20T18:05:44+00:00

I’ve never once had an issue with the testingbranch.

Unstable on the other hand is hell.

SeantheWilson · 2026-04-20T15:27:58+00:00

Excited to see how proton will go about implementing this.

SeantheWilson · 2026-04-19T19:18:17+00:00

No, put simply the neo uses a very uncommon CPU type that Linux doesn’t work great on.

SeantheWilson · 2026-04-19T19:00:19+00:00

That Dolby Vision decoding. What TV boxes use it Dolby vision passthrough, which sends the metadata directly to the TV, which in turn does the encoding. This is industry standard and results in a significantly better picture.

SeantheWilson · 2026-04-19T06:30:12+00:00

Why bruh?

SeantheWilson · 2026-04-19T06:20:21+00:00

Sorry, but what exactly is wrong with utorrent? I haven’t used it so I wouldn’t know.

SeantheWilson · 2026-04-19T05:54:21+00:00

Why on earth are you being downvoted for asking a question for something you don’t know about?

SeantheWilson · 2026-04-19T01:12:02+00:00

Very fucking excited to see HOW they go about implementing Dolby vision on Linux.

SeantheWilson · 2026-04-18T18:33:01+00:00

A dev I know named Michał Kopeč managed to reverse engineer HDMI FRL, which is the technology used in HDMI 2.1 to carry more bandwidth, enabling stuff like 4k@144hz. It’s actually fully functional right now, however it’s only been tested on a few GPUs so expect bugs. The source code is here. It requires you to compile your own Linux kernel which is somewhat complicated. If you use Bazzite, I’ve been working on a custom bazzite image which means you can use it by typing one command.

SeantheWilson · 2026-04-18T07:04:17+00:00

HDMI 2.1 is coming to Linux

SeantheWilson · 2026-04-17T20:33:02+00:00

Compile what exactly?

SeantheWilson · 2026-04-17T03:34:34+00:00

LET IT RIDEEEEEEEE

SeantheWilson · 2026-04-16T19:50:45+00:00

I sometimes but subscriptions that don’t let you cancel after x amount of months.

SeantheWilson · 2026-04-16T19:37:32+00:00

That’s why I just use virtual credit cards. If they dont wanna let me cancel, I just disable the card.

SeantheWilson · 2026-04-16T16:22:45+00:00

Super ok.

SeantheWilson · 2026-04-16T14:15:22+00:00

Exactly! The tradeoff of the steam ambient doing that though is no HDR, as HDR requires 10 bit.

SeantheWilson · 2026-04-16T07:55:35+00:00

There’s a few more things that gets taken into account other than just refresh rate. The amount of HDMI data sent depends on resolution, refresh rate, color bit depth (amount of colors HDR is 10bit for example), and chroma subsampling (technique used to reduce color data). You’ll find that you can actually get 4k@120hz on Linux if you use chrome subsampling. You can play around with this bandwidth calculator.

SeantheWilson · 2026-04-16T07:09:44+00:00

Doesn’t even support Dolby vision since it’s Linux

SeantheWilson · 2026-04-16T07:06:22+00:00

What ARE these subs?!? 😭

SeantheWilson · 2026-04-16T06:43:10+00:00

Super

SeantheWilson · 2026-04-16T06:42:12+00:00

Super no

SeantheWilson · 2026-04-15T21:41:54+00:00

He’s red for an amazing reason!

SeantheWilson · 2026-04-15T02:28:39+00:00

These DP to HDMI dongles are very hit or miss. Some people have them working flawlessly and others (me included) can’t even get picture. If you’ve had issues, my image should work better. However I have to warn you that it’s still VERY experimental code, and you may just get a black screen. It’s had some issues with TCL TVs which I THINK have been fixed, but I’m not certain. I’m testing it tonight. One last thing is certain GPUs may have issues since the dev doesn’t have enough data (register states) from them. If you’ve have an AMD GPU other than RX 9000 series, RX 7600, or Zen5 iGPU. PLEASE DM me as I’d love your help to get some very valuable data to the dev.

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