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No HDR option in Bazzite/KDE after connecting computer directly to display

I am running Bazzite 40 on a system with an RTX 4080. Up until yesterday, I was connecting computer -> Samsung HW-Q900C soundbar -> Samsung Q90C TV. I learned that the soundbar doesn’t have HDMI 2.1 ports which is why I hadn’t been able to get 120Hz, so I changed my setup to computer -> TV + soundbar -> TV (eARC).

Now, I do have 120Hz, but I lost a bunch of other options in my display settings, including HDR. The only options I can set there now are resolution, orientation, refresh rate, and scale. I suspect this is an issue with the TV communicating its capabilities in a way the OS doesn’t understand, but I’m not sure how to fix or work around it. Can anyone suggest a fix? Is there a setting I can change on the TV or maybe an app I can run on the computer to manually set the TV’s capabilities?

Update: Just discovered kscreen-doctor. Here’s the output:


<span style="color:#323232;">Output: 445 HDMI-0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	enabled
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	connected
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	priority 1
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	HDMI
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	Modes:  446:3840x2160@60!  447:4096x2160@120  448:4096x2160@100  449:4096x2160@60  450:4096x2160@50  451:4096x2160@30  452:4096x2160@24  453:4096x2160@24  454:3840x2160@144  455:3840x2160@120*  456:3840x2160@100  457:3840x2160@60  458:3840x2160@50  459:3840x2160@30  460:3840x2160@25  461:3840x2160@24  462:3840x1600@144  463:3840x1600@120  464:3840x1600@60  465:3840x1080@144  466:3840x1080@120  467:3840x1080@60  468:2560x1440@120  469:2560x1080@144  470:2560x1080@120  471:2560x1080@60  472:1920x1080@144  473:1920x1080@120  474:1920x1080@100  475:1920x1080@60  476:1920x1080@60  477:1920x1080@50  478:1920x1080@30  479:1920x1080@25  480:1920x1080@24  481:1680x1050@60  482:1600x900@60  483:1440x900@60  484:1280x1024@75  485:1280x1024@60  486:1280x800@60  487:1280x720@60  488:1280x720@60  489:1280x720@50  490:1152x864@75  491:1024x768@75  492:1024x768@70  493:1024x768@60  494:800x600@75  495:800x600@72  496:800x600@60  497:720x576@50  498:720x480@60  499:640x480@75  500:640x480@73  501:640x480@60 
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	Geometry: 0,0 3840x2160
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	Scale: 1
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	Rotation: 1
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	Overscan: 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	Vrr: incapable
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	RgbRange: unknown
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	HDR: incapable
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	Wide Color Gamut: incapable
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	ICC profile: incapable
</span><span style="color:#323232;">	Color profile source: incapable
</span>
eugenia ,
@eugenia@lemmy.ml avatar

Things to try: a different brand cable, an hdmi-switcher.

RadDevon OP ,
@RadDevon@lemmy.zip avatar

HDMI switcher is an interesting idea. Will it do more than just forward on the EDID? (Hope I have that right. 😅) Will it sorta translate it and push out its own EDID?

The cable is one of the two cables that previously completed the chain between the display and computer. Could it still be a problem in spite of that?

possiblylinux127 ,

The monitor isn’t capable of HDR. Maybe check your monitor settings

RadDevon OP ,
@RadDevon@lemmy.zip avatar

The monitor definitely is. Like I said, it was working when connected through the soundbar. It seems to be that it isn’t reporting capabilities the same way the soundbar did when connected directly to the computer.

possiblylinux127 ,

What I am saying is that I don’t think this is a software issue. It sounds like something changed that caused it to lose support.

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