I have come into possession of an oled monitor due to a friend giving it to me, however updating its firmware has become a nightmare. It doesnt seem possible to update it without windows. Windows PE live discs do not work at all either. I’ve tried wine and a vm, neither worked.
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=439932 This forum mentions the issue as well but there is no resolution. Thoughts?
I had the same issue for a Lenovo bios update. I finally just installed windows to go on an ssd memory stick and booted that to do the update.
Why the fuck would you even need to update the monitor firmware. It’s a screen, that displays things.
For example, MSI’s OLED panel care program was extremely aggressive when these panels were new, out of an abundance of caution.
They continued their research and burn-in testing, and concluded that their monitors would be fine over the years. An update was made to allow for longer periods before panel care was required, as well as disabling the pop up that would frequently interrupt usage and couldn’t be skipped. Now their monitors will trigger it automatically whenever it’s powered off.
Use a windows VM and then make sure that your hypervisor is properly passing thru the USB device/connection to the monitor to the windows guest vm. Not sure why you’d need a windows host OS for this.
It doesn’t have a USB 😔
That’s weird. I was looking at this docs page and assumed that USB is how the update actually happened.
Boot a proper Windows PE / to go from usb, you can create it via https://github.com/PhoenixPE/PhoenixPE
How did you create yours?
So I actually killed my previous linux distro using hirens bootcd, and the firmware update didnt work for whatever strange reason but windows inserted random shit into my partition on boot which required a full reinstall of my distro. maybe phoenix pe would work idk, i’ll see if a laptop can handle it
I was in a very similar situation not too long ago, and my solution was also to just have a spare ssd, install windows on it, make the update and then go back. I tried to use a pe version of windows, as well a full blown windows on a USB. These solutions just didn’t work as expected, somehow the update would always fail. Windows on a proper ssd worked
