[SOLVED] Can't get HDMI 4K on my TV with KDE Plasma & Wayland
[SOLVED] Vizio TV owners: You may need to manually turn on "Full HD Color" to get 4K@60Hz resolutions available! Oddly, this wasn't necessary for X11-based distros tested, but was required for Wayland-based distros tested...
Menu > Input Settings > HDMI-1 > Full UHD Color. It defaults to Off for some reason. 🤦♂️
When I was on Debian Bookworm and X11, I could only get 4K video at 30Hz from my GTX 980 Ti. I eventually upgraded from the HDMI cable that came with the 4K Vizio TV to a good brand HDMI 2.1 cable, then both 3840x2160@59.94Hz and 4096x2160@59.94Hz were available and working. (I think 3840 is the TV's native, there were more artifacts on text at 4096.)
I had some issues with Wine games on Debian that I couldn't figure out, and wanted to try some newer/different software, so I went distro-hopping. On both Nobara and currently EndeavourOS, both with KDE and Wayland, I'm back to only having 4K@30Hz available.
Edit: One strange detail I just remembered: Normally, the TV identifies itself as Vizio 55", but when I set 4K@59.94 in Debian, it identified as Vizio 11". Some kind of EDID workaround? I didn't have to do anything special, just install nvidia-driver and replace the cable.
I've only been able to find people with the opposite problem, where they can get 4K on Wayland but not on X11.
Holy shit, double-checking this actually sent me in the right direction!
I missed it because it's not in the normal picture settings, but Menu > Input Settings > HDMI-1 > Full HD Color... defaults to Off, but when turned On, 4K@60 is now available in KDE Display Configuration! 🤦♂️