Nouveau - Dec 2011 - Why do non-lvds monitors default to dithering these days?

In the past we assumed that external displays did their own dithering
if needed. GPU based dithering is only needed for laptop displays if i
had to guess.

I was almost thinking my monitor was malfunctioning because of strange
barely visible flickering. Now it *seems* as if dithering was the
problem, although time will have to tell, because it's subtle to see
these effects.

Ofcource i can try and find a way to set the connector property more
permanently (if anyone has suggestions besides sticking an xrandr
command in my .xinitrc please let me know), but i don't see why we
would need to assume that anything but lvds and eDP needs to be
dithered.

-- 
Far away from the primal instinct, the song seems to fade away, the
river get wider between your thoughts and the things we do and say.

On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Maarten Maathuis <madman2003 at
gmail.com> wrote:
> In the past we assumed that external displays did their own dithering
> if needed. GPU based dithering is only needed for laptop displays if i
> had to guess.
>
> I was almost thinking my monitor was malfunctioning because of strange
> barely visible flickering. Now it *seems* as if dithering was the
> problem, although time will have to tell, because it's subtle to see
> these effects.
>
> Ofcource i can try and find a way to set the connector property more
> permanently (if anyone has suggestions besides sticking an xrandr
> command in my .xinitrc please let me know), but i don't see why we
> would need to assume that anything but lvds and eDP needs to be
> dithered.
>
> --
> Far away from the primal instinct, the song seems to fade away, the
> river get wider between your thoughts and the things we do and say.
Ping.

-- 
Far away from the primal instinct, the song seems to fade away, the
river get wider between your thoughts and the things we do and say.