Broadcast RGB property and Intel video driver

[Ed Greshko]

On 06/24/13 05:56, Tom Horsley wrote:
> For the longest time, I've had this suspicion that some
> update to the Intel graphics driver has made it screw
> up the range of colors that can be displayed.
>
> I just found this command:
>
> xrandr --output HDMI2 --set "Broadcast RGB" Full
>
> And the result is magical, the thin mist that had been
> obscuring my screen was blown away, and everything is
> crystal clear again.
>
> But, it makes the screen flicker badly, and the Samsung
> TV I'm using is slightly out of sync till I power cycle
> it (or switch modes and switch back).
>
> Anyone know if there is some way to set this permanently
> as the default mode for the display rather than having to
> run xrandr to change it at runtime?
>
> (Apparently the default "Automatic" setting for this
> property guesses wrong).

Just the smallest amount of googling suggests that an xorg.conf option exists for this....

Option "BROADCAST_RGB"   "0"   or   "1"



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