[Nouveau] Why do non-lvds monitors default to dithering these days?

[Maarten Maathuis]

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.