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1. minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 01:29:38 JST minute

   • Timon 🛠

   after a lot of trial and error and reverse engineering of a hdmi adapter from the seller i got the alternative display panel for pocket reform up and running today, finally. this was hard because docs were severely limited and @timonsku and me were extremely puzzled why nothing was working. in the end the escape clock frequency was too high, setting it to 24MHz worked.

   • JP (froztbyte@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 01:31:50 JST JP

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     • Timon 🛠

     @mntmn @timonsku haha wow that's cursed

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 04:12:05 JST minute

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     • Timon 🛠

     @timonsku this display doesn't seem to have built in backlight control via dcs. so i did a totally-not-a-hack to PWM the led enable at 100khz via a recent version of the pwm-gpio.c driver from stefan wahren

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 06:08:44 JST minute

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     • josch

     @josch yes, maybe we should add some more on the other device trees 👀👀

   • josch (josch@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 06:08:45 JST josch

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     @mntmn 👀 Those look like a *lot* of brightness levels!

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 06:14:56 JST minute

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     • josch

     @josch yeah! one can just add more pwm levels to the pwm brightness node in the dts file :3

   • josch (josch@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 06:14:57 JST josch

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     @mntmn Hrm... what I'd need on the big Reform is not more brightness levels but a darker darkest level. But at MiniDebConf people told me that they have their display brightness controlled depending on what a light sensor measures and it looks really smooth when their displays adjust their brightness: one cannot see the individual steps anymore. :)

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 06:38:21 JST minute

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     • josch

     @josch one can do brightnessctl 100%

   • josch (josch@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 06:38:22 JST josch

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     @mntmn Though I guess that might be a bit disruptive for existing setups which control their setups using tools like `brightnessctl set 8` to put their display to full brightness, which would then not do the intended thing anymore. But I would also not know how to make this sort of thing opt-in... :/