OS is Archlinux and I'm using latest version of colord-kde on latest version of kf5/Plasma. I think colord has some issues with DP-MST monitors, because when my two Dell U2515H are attached it doesn't recognize any monitor at all in my laptop: I just see "sysfs-(null)" in the KCM. Today I tried it with a TV using an HDMI adapter and it did recognize it. I don't know if the problem with DP-MST is in colord-kde (hardly) or upstream in colord. Can you help me? I really don't know how to debug it because I really don't know colord.
Issue is definitely in colord-kde: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/colord/2016-November/000310.html
Hi, please run kded5 by hand and with debug messages on try attaching a monitor to see if there is activity there. I don't have a DP cable to test this atm :(
Created attachment 102278 [details] kded5 Here it is.
those are all kscreen output, sadly 0.5 didn't got categorized output, try export QT_LOGGING_RULES=default.*=true colord output would be on default loggin
Created attachment 102293 [details] log I put export QT_LOGGING_RULES=default.*=true into ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile. I attached the output of "journalctl -b -0".
Any news on this?
I'm waiting to get time to buy such cable. In the mean time I added categorized logging, so if you compile the git version might give better information on what happened. Unfortunately it's not easy to find this cabe on local stores...
The cable is a standard Mini Displayport Cable (but even a Display Port one would be fine if you have a DP output instead of miniDP). To use MST (Multistream) you have to attach it to a monitor capable of handling MST with a miniDP or DP input and a miniDP or DP output. I will compile git version and attach logs from kded5 when attaching the external monitor.
ok, I missread and didn't notice the DP-MST part. So I brought a DP-DP cable and everything was fine. Then I attached the DVI cabe to the monitor and instead of seing 3 monitors it kept showing 2. Of course there is only 2 monitors but I believe it's the same issue, since you have two identicals monitors it thinks it's the same, I'll investigate further later to see what Gnome Color Manager does. Best.
Created attachment 102786 [details] kded5.log Here is the output of kded5 when attaching the DP cable with colord-kde-git. Sorry if it took so long.
One year without answer...
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I'm personally not interested in this anymore because Wayland basically dropped any kind of color management, but I've fired up old X11 and it seems to work now: $ colormgr get-devices Object Path: /org/freedesktop/ColorManager/devices/xrandr_Dell_Inc__DELL_U2515H_9X2VY52D02ZL_niko_1000 Owner: niko Created: novembre 11 2022, 03:32:04 PM Modified: novembre 11 2022, 03:32:05 PM Type: display Enabled: Yes Embedded: Yes Model: DELL U2515H Vendor: Dell Serial: 9X2VY52D02ZL Scope: temp Colorspace: rgb Device ID: xrandr-Dell Inc.-DELL U2515H-9X2VY52D02ZL Profile 1: icc-d016234a0d5c7598d9bbc753e4a7f3bd /home/niko/.local/share/icc/edid-c9d4bf8ee238c8b7abb434cd496632de.icc Metadata: OutputEdidMd5=c9d4bf8ee238c8b7abb434cd496632de Metadata: OutputPriority=primary Metadata: XRANDR_name=DP-1-8 Metadata: OwnerCmdline=/usr/bin/kded5 Object Path: /org/freedesktop/ColorManager/devices/xrandr_Dell_Inc__DELL_U2515H_9X2VY52D04KL_niko_1000 Owner: niko Created: novembre 11 2022, 03:32:05 PM Modified: novembre 11 2022, 03:32:06 PM Type: display Enabled: Yes Embedded: Yes Model: DELL U2515H Vendor: Dell Serial: 9X2VY52D04KL Scope: temp Colorspace: rgb Device ID: xrandr-Dell Inc.-DELL U2515H-9X2VY52D04KL Profile 1: icc-c2af42e7940daecc556dd891aa572828 /home/niko/.local/share/icc/edid-7ae9afdc51735aa75676bb90878c22da.icc Metadata: OutputEdidMd5=7ae9afdc51735aa75676bb90878c22da Metadata: OutputPriority=primary Metadata: XRANDR_name=DP-1-1-8 Metadata: OwnerCmdline=/usr/bin/kded5