Using 10bpc instead of 8 with Nvidia proprietary drivers

Ridrok

Hello,

I have a Dell UP3017 screen connected via DP to my nVidia GTX 1070 Ti graphic card.
This screen is 10bpc capable and Windows it is set as 10bpc.

In NVIDIA X Server Settings, I cannot change this. here is the X Screen 0 content:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2019 2:00 pm Post subject:

Ridrok,

Try it and tell us what happens :)

I suspect its not that easy as you need 30 bit support everywhere and I bet its not there yet.
It will probably break transparency if you use that, as the 8 bits used for the alpha channel have been reduced to 2.
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Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

It should be as simple as changing the 24 to 30, that's how it works on radeon/amdgpu. Many toolkits and libraries won't know what to do with it though, read the wiki.

Ridrok · Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 9:45 am Post subject:

I changed it and it's now 30 but...

Many application cannot display anymore proper colors, blue is now pink. krdc display me Windows in pink/red/blue.
https://imgur.com/JNtQ9cx

KDE windows button are scrambled and borders are pink instead of blue (I use a Win7 theme).

So it is either not enough to change screen in xorg.conf or it simply does not work properly on Linux.
I revert to 24bits for now.

Ridrok

Naib · Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2019 5:22 pm Post subject:

did you change both defaultdepth and depth in your xorg snippit? both need to be 30

also:
Quadro cards based on G80 (G=Generation) and higher are required.

so nvidia might not support this in linux with their desktop line

also:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-942736.html

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/30bpp
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Ridrok · Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2019 6:09 pm Post subject:

Yes, I tested changing the first, then both with same result.
I don't know the gen of this card, it's a GTX 1070Ti and works fine with 30bpp on Windows, like my old Radeon 280X did.

I have seen the wiki already and I can't even have KDE display its windows properly, or the problem may be the Win7 theme I use.
Apart the contour, some applications could display their content properly and krdc for example did not (screenshot above).

By the way support on Windows for 30bpp is so slim that I tested it in Linux more for curiosity purpose than anything else and because I have a screen claiming to support it.
Let's hope one day it works especially when oled monitor are available at a descent price, not for tomorrow.

And if Minecraft is not working when 30bpp is activated, then I can't switch :lol:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2019 7:41 pm Post subject:

Ridrok,

The nvidia evil binary blob is the same code on Windows and Linux. I don't think its even rebuilt.
On Linux you get an extra open source 'shim' that does all the conversions to make the same blob work on Linux.

Its unlikely that the binary blob is the problem. That might be good news as everything else is open source.
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