I previously posted to Lemmy about my 8K TV and attempts to get it working on Linux. Based on suggestions there I bought an Intel Arc B580 which apparently supports 8K. But I can’t get that on my TV. I’ve tried multiple cables, multiple video cards (including the NVidia one), and both HDMI and DisplayPort output from GPUs.

How can I find out where the problem is? Can I interrogate a HDMI or DisplayPort target to find out what modes it claims to support? Can I ask the GPU what modes are actually supported on it’s outputs? If so how?

  • etbe@lemmy.mlOP
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    2 days ago

    Thanks for the advice, I installed the Debian package “read-edid” and used the get-edid program from it to get the EDID from the monitor. Then I installed the “wxedid” package to display it graphically because the parse-edid program from read-edid didn’t work well. According to wxedid there’s a seletion of 38402160 modes and some 40962160 modes. So it seems that the EDID is the problem.