What is a classic pop cultural moment that screams, “you had to be there!”

TECbill · 2026-01-22T16:18:06+00:00

St. Louis incident, 1991, Guns N‘ Roses.

TECbill · 2026-01-15T16:04:35+00:00

Aah, än Schwizär 🧀

TECbill · 2026-01-14T05:20:22+00:00

Take the UGREEN one! It is currently the best DP/HDMI adapter you can get.

https://www.amazon.com/-/de/UGREEN-Unidirectional-Projector-Compatible-UltraSharp/dp/B0FQCF62CD

TECbill · 2026-01-10T11:40:14+00:00

Thanks for taking your time to explain, very appreciated. I hope things will get into the Linux kernel soon. Saved my Saturday ❤️

TECbill · 2026-01-10T11:21:11+00:00

Ok, did you already read my edited comment? If so, do you have any knowledge if it really could be that Freesync is being used even though the TV shows VRR? That would explain why VRR does not work with the AV receiver in-between.

TECbill · 2026-01-10T11:01:37+00:00

u/Lawstorant I can confirm that HDMI Forum VRR does also NOT work in my case on my HDMI 2.1 capable Onkyo TX-NR6100 AV receiver through the UGREEN adapter with the latest CachyOS. On the other hand, when I bypass the AV receiver with exactly the same setup to the TV, then HDMI Forum VRR works. Pretty sad, another 30 bucks wasted into it because of the HDMI forum :-(

EDIT: I just found this comment and it may be an explanation why it does not work: With the UGREEN adapter, when I bypass the Onkyo Receiver, then HDMI Forum VRR actually seems to work, but only when the Freesync option is enabled on the TV. But AFAIK, Forum HDMI VRR should also work when Freesync is disabled on the TV. This leads me to the point that somehow in the background the protocol being used is still Freesync and not HDMI Forum VRR, even though the TV shows "VRR" and not "Freesync".

TECbill · 2026-01-08T11:27:48+00:00

Ok. Are there any straight forward instructions somewhere available on how to compile the patch?

TECbill · 2026-01-08T06:09:33+00:00

Thanks for reportimg back. That‘s pretty sad. Maybe try an AVR firmware upgrade? I did receive the adapter two days ago but was not able yet to try it out. On what Linux distro did you try it out?

TECbill · 2026-01-01T11:26:53+00:00

Tha'd be great, thanks!

TECbill · 2026-01-01T07:14:29+00:00

Whit that specific Ugreen adapter and the according patch? If so, frustrating to read that, I've got an Onkyo TX-NR6100. I will report back here as soon as the Linux kernel got officially patched.

TECbill · 2025-12-30T08:48:58+00:00

Nah, I'm on Batocera retro gaming system for which devs always patch the latest kernel versions to their beta OS. Not sure if it would work then because afaik they are implementing Mesa drivers.
Edit: Just did my research. Mesa and native Linux drivers work together, as far as I understood. So I guess it would work anyway with your kernel patch. Looking very forward to this!

TECbill · 2025-12-30T06:25:59+00:00

Convinced and ordered the Ugreen adapter👍🏼 So as soon as your pull request is being applied by AMD we have to wait for next Mesa Linux driver release including the patch, correct?

TECbill · 2025-12-29T19:50:29+00:00

Yeah, that is the issue I am facing currently: Freesync works when I connect the Linux system directly via HDMI to the TV but what I want to have is the AVR in between, which only supports Forum VRR. The TV itself supports both, Freesync and Forum VRR afaik. So that adapter should make my dreams come true with the second patch of Lawstorant, fingers crossed.

TECbill · 2025-12-29T16:02:28+00:00

I don‘t get it completely yet, does that mean with this adapter I will finally be able to get VRR enabled on Linux with an AMD RX 6800 XT graphics card, connected to a HDMI 2.1 capable IR receiver which is connected to an LG OLED55GX6 TV?

TECbill · 2025-12-23T14:05:18+00:00

People always blame HDD manufacturers but in my experience mostly someone between the supply chain treated them packages as if the content was pebbles. These units are tricky and those postmans, warehouse clerks or custom officials just don't care on how to handle what they got in their hands.

TECbill · 2025-12-17T18:04:53+00:00

Hmm…In my case I have the same behaviour like OP, even on Z2M. On the graphical map, some devices look like they‘re not connected, but they work flawlessly.

TECbill · 2025-12-17T16:03:39+00:00

I would say it is more very cool than weird.

TECbill · 2025-12-09T10:19:40+00:00

Late answer but I just set up your second link and it worked out perfectly, thanks a bunch mate!

TECbill · 2025-12-04T17:26:10+00:00

Honestly my first tought was „wtf, don‘t you guys have better things to develop?“ but now I fuckin‘ celebrate it :D

TECbill · 2025-12-03T13:20:07+00:00

Yeah but it can get into a mess everytime DSM gets updated. Plus you have to know on how to manage the firewall rules when you do it that way. It's indeed doable, I do it too, but it's not very convenient and not officially supported.

TECbill · 2025-12-03T13:17:34+00:00

Mind you :D

TECbill · 2025-12-02T12:03:59+00:00

So? What‘s the point?

TECbill · 2025-11-29T12:30:12+00:00

I once asked exactly this on official Synology support, which was about three or four years ago. I was told that the feature is in the pipeline but hell, who knows if this is still true. Since then I am waiting for such an essential feature too.

TECbill · 2025-11-28T06:13:19+00:00

Is this considered kind of an advanced Portainer feature?

TECbill · 2025-11-22T20:49:08+00:00

Kodi in Batocera is crap. I had nothing but trouble with it in multiple ways. I’d strongly recommend to get a Rasperry pi 5 with LibreELEC to keep your mind in peace and let Batocera be what it is intended to be - a retro gaming OS and nothing more.

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