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Either Linux's built-in display drivers are black magic or microslop is incompetent (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 hours ago by ColdWater@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I can't control my off-brand external monitor brightness connected from my laptop on w11, but I can just fine on Linux out of the box no fucking around needed

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[–] BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.world 2 points 25 minutes ago (1 children)

Can you enable DDC/CI in the monitors on-screen menus?

If so, and if there aren't drivers available (I can't find drivers when searching MF2208-A), then if you can enable DDC/CI you can use 3rd party tools to control the brightness. Display Dimmer and ClickMonitorDDC are 2 I found on a quick google.

If Linux can control the monitor, then it sounds like a lack of drivers for Windows but the display should still support DDC/CI; 3rd party tools do sometimes still work in this scenario for DDC/CI in Windows.

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 1 points 23 minutes ago

No ddc/ci in the monitor menus

[–] ISolox@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

Does windows let you control external monitor brightness at all? I don't think ive ever seen the option for external displays on windows.

[–] badlotus@discuss.online 4 points 48 minutes ago (1 children)

Windows doesn’t let you do this natively. But you can do this via PowerToys (third-party add-on): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/power-display

[–] techt@lemmy.world 2 points 13 minutes ago

It's not third-party -- MS themselves published it. I like it and use it often for work!

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

DevToys is third-party, but also very good.

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 4 points 52 minutes ago

It show a grayed out slider on mine

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 12 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Either Linux's built-in display drivers are black magic or microslop is incompetent

Why not both :) ?

I just realized that since switching to cachyos 4 months ago I have never had to install any driver or driver updates (outside of just running the system update).

Even during initial setup I don't think I installed anything driver related.

It's really a step up from Microslop. Last time I installed my W10 I had to prepare all the necessary drivers and collect them on each manufacturers websites.

It is so much more streamlined on Linux.

[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I am no expert at all, but I am reminded of what a buttload of drivers are included in the package group linux-firmware. Maybe that's why. 🤔🪛🔧

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yeah maybe, and it's only under 1gb to download, this show how bad and bloated w11 is

[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, I only use Windows every now and then in a VM to flash Android devices, because I can't figure out how to use the CLI version of Odin on Linux. 😫 Even then, I use Tiny10 and debloat it with The Ultimate Windows Utility.

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Isn’t this a driver issue?

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Don't think so, this monitor doesn't even have a driver to download

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 1 points 21 minutes ago

Gpu driver.