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    <body><span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:daniel@ffwll.ch" title="Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>"> <span class="fn">Daniel Vetter</span></a>
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   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59113">bug 59113</a>
              from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:daniel@ffwll.ch" title="Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>"> <span class="fn">Daniel Vetter</span></a>
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        <pre>Just checked your logs, we don't dither ... strange.

Can you please test whether this quick hack here changes anything?

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
index 1b63d55..bb3f9d5 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c
@@ -198,6 +198,10 @@ intel_dp_adjust_dithering(struct intel_dp *intel_dp,
        mode_rate = intel_dp_link_required(mode->clock, 24);
        max_rate = intel_dp_max_data_rate(max_link_clock, max_lanes);

+       if (adjust_mode)
+               mode->private_flags
+                       |= INTEL_MODE_DP_FORCE_6BPC;
+
        if (mode_rate > max_rate) {
                mode_rate = intel_dp_link_required(mode->clock, 18);
                if (mode_rate > max_rate)</pre>
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