I can’t control my off-brand external monitor brightness connected from my laptop on w11, but I can just fine on Linux out of the box no fucking around needed
*White magic. It’s open, not secretive.
I though white magic was healing and black was harming?
Then what is a driver?
I am no expert at all, but I am reminded of what a buttload of drivers are included in the package group
linux-firmware. Maybe that’s why. 🤔🪛🔧Yeah maybe, and it’s only under 1gb to download, this show how bad and bloated w11 is
Yeah, I only use Windows every now and then in a VM to flash Android devices, because I can’t figure out how to use the CLI version of Odin on Linux. 😫 Even then, I use Tiny10 and debloat it with The Ultimate Windows Utility.
This is a tangent, but I miss the days of things just working?
Why does my GPU need an entire software suite to function? Why do my keyboard and mouse? My monitor? Why does every piece of hardware need a buggy terrible gui with “features” nobody ever cared about until it was advertised to them? Up until the last 5 years I’ve never had a monitor not just work out of the box (outside of crt setups with adapters plugged into adapters)
This week I nad to install Wi*dows on my old laptop so I could give it to my dad.
It turns out that for some reason microslop does not include the NVMe drivers for this platform in the installer. Never had this issue when installing Linux on it. Image my confusion when I found out this was the issue.
This week I nad to install Wi*dows on my old laptop so I could give it to my dad.
lol. That brings back memories. I did that once, and then I kept getting asked Windows tech support questions.
So now I don’t bother. Linux Mint is more than good enough for my random family use.
Go to windows updates, click the little “optional updates” text.
Usually weird display stuff is in there.
Only to be told “your system is up to date” 🤣
Isn’t this a driver issue?
Don’t think so, this monitor doesn’t even have a driver to download
Gpu driver.
My Dell monitor’s brightness can adjusted on Bazzite Linux out of the box but I’ve never been able to get this working on Linux Mint, Arch, Debian nor NixOS :/
Can you enable DDC/CI in the monitors on-screen menus?
If so, and if there aren’t drivers available (I can’t find drivers when searching MF2208-A), then if you can enable DDC/CI you can use 3rd party tools to control the brightness. Display Dimmer and ClickMonitorDDC are 2 I found on a quick google.
If Linux can control the monitor, then it sounds like a lack of drivers for Windows but the display should still support DDC/CI; 3rd party tools do sometimes still work in this scenario for DDC/CI in Windows.
No ddc/ci in the monitor menus
afaik windows has no native capability to control brightness setting on external displays. an optional driver for the display may be available via windows update which might allow a third-party utility to control the setting directly.
Damn I guess I’m spoiled by Linux
I used Monitorian when I was using Windows years ago, you can find it in the Microslop Store (if it’s still available)
The message you’re seeing is Monitorian, it complained about ddc/ci, I never had to deal with ddc/ci on Linux
I had to install a package to make ddc/ci work on Linux, it might just be a Debian thing tho
I have a BenQ EW270Q. I’m experiencing a really odd issue. I’m able to control the display’s brightness from GNOME’s quick settings, but only with HDR enabled. When I disable HDR, the controls disappear. Any idea why this could be?
