<div dir="ltr">2013/5/20 Daniel Vetter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniel@ffwll.ch" target="_blank">daniel@ffwll.ch</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 12:39:14AM +0200, Jan Hinnerk Stosch wrote:<br>
> Hallo,<br>
><br>
> I hope this is the right place to ask, because I actually don't know<br>
> whether it is a bug or a feature that I'm experiencing since linux 3.9:<br>
> When I boot my system the backlight gets extremely bright compared to older<br>
> kernel versions. It is most obvious when I leave X (more a yellow than a<br>
> black background), but I have the impression, that the colors in X are<br>
> brighter than usual, too.<br>
> I used my spare time this afternoon to do a kernel bisect and learned that<br>
> the first "bad" commit is 55bc60db5988c8366751d3d04dd690698a53412c. As I<br>
> don't have insight or understanding of the code: Is this behaviour intended<br>
> and how could I change it to the old state or is it a bug and should I<br>
> report it somewhere?<br>
> My system is as follows:<br>
> Intel i5-3570k with Intel HD 4000<br>
> my monitor is connected via HDMI.<br>
> If you need any more information just tell me.<br>
<br>
</div></div>Yeah, this is a feature. HDMI has (for oddball backwards compat with<br>
analog TV signals) a special mode which reduces the useable RGB value<br>
range by chopping off about 10% at the bottom and top end. This results in<br>
light colors getting brighter and dark colors getting darker.<br>
<br>
The above mentioned commit tries (to the best of our knowledge) to<br>
auto-set the option which most likely fits what the hdmi sink will do with<br>
the color data. You can either fix this up in the hdmi sink with the<br>
on-screen menu or by manually setting the "RBG Broadcast" property for the<br>
relevant hdmi connector to the setting you want.<br>
<br>
Cheers, Daniel<br>
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Daniel Vetter<br>
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</font></span></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>Ok, thank you for your detailed explanation.</div><div class="gmail_extra" style><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>Regards,</div><div class="gmail_extra" style>
jhs</div></div>