• davidgro@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      The licensing on HDMI doesn’t allow open source implementations of at least some of the driver stuff.

      So it works on Nvidia because of the closed source driver.

      (I have not dug into details obviously)

      • kusivittula
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        3 days ago

        and because of this, can’t get 4k120 for my tv monitor which doesn’t have displayport :( and similar size oled monitors are very expensive.

        • Sips'@slrpnk.net
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          3 days ago

          Ah yeah ok was wondering why u wouldn’t use DP instead. Couldn’t an adapter work though?

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            3 days ago

            adapter would work but i can only find one and it has bad reviews

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          3 days ago

          Wouldn’t a DP - HDMI cable work?

          (Don’t know anything about this)

          • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.de
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            3 days ago

            There’s pretty much a single DP -> HDMI adapter that supports VRR by Cable Matters. Officially I don’t think VRR should work over adapters, or at least other manufacturers don’t invest the time to make it work.