Problem with color depth on UHD 630 about display_manager

[mabam]

I’ve just installed v. 0.10.0 of Display Manager as there it was still possible to define the colour depth manually. When defining display_manager.py set --display [display] -w 1280 -h 1024 -d 32 -r 60 that resulted in an actual setting of 24-bit, while defining display_manager.py set --display [display] -w 1280 -h 1024 -d 30 -r 60 resulted in an actual setting of the specified 30-bit.

In the first example, while my iGPU is not capable of 32-bit, I don’t know why a lower colour depth is actually set than the iGPU can provide for this screen. But as an idea for a future version of Display Manager, instead of adding back a color depth option to the syntax (as suggested in my initial comment), you might have your script check the possible colour depths allowed by the GPU. And if 32-bit isn’t among them, have Display Manager set the next lower one.

I hope this is of any help to you.

EDIT for clarification:
After running the command in the first example above, Terminal confirms that 32-bit is set. However, under “Graphics/Displays” in the System Report, 24-bit is reported.

[uurazzle]

@mabam Thanks for the feedback. When we get time we will try to investigate the issue and consider updating the code. If you know python and are willing to help with our project, pull requests are welcome.

[mabam]

I would help if I was able to. But I’m rather a hacker than a coder, I’m afraid. Python is a foreign language to me.

But thank you for this useful tool!
(Though in my use case I don’t need most of its functions.)

[uurazzle]

@mabam: Ok, np. We are busy with other projects, but will get to it when we can. So, are you trying to use Display Manager on non-apple hardware? We didn't test for that ;-)

[mabam]

So I at least help you testing ;-)