Annoying dynamic contrast effect

[Kiriririn]

There seems to be some sort of dynamic contrast baked into the kernel/display, similar to what Intel GPUs do by default on laptops

See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cys7tbrVlNw (it's not the camera)

It's particularly noticeable in the shade of black/grey on the LXQT menu button and clock when focusing and unfocusing a terminal window

Unless I'm mistaken this is Miravision, which seems to live in /drivers/misc/mediatek/video/common/color20, but I've had no luck disabling it via the obvious config flags (CONFIG_MTK_PQ_COLOR_MODE etc)

Has anyone else noticed this/tried to disable it?

[Kiriririn]

Solved!

Simply set this in the kernel config:

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CONFIG_MTK_AAL_SUPPORT=n
Nice increase in image quality with this change (things look closer to how they should), god only knows what mediatek were thinking with this

[Kiriririn]

So it turns out disabling AAL breaks sleep (i.e. screen does not wake up when opening lid, everything else does)

Fortunately there is a simple fix - instead of disabling it in the kernel, add a cron to pause aal - it seems this usermode binary does all the heavy lifting. It autorestarts if killed, so pausing is the only option

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killall -STOP /vendor/bin/aal

[Kiriririn]

Hacked the above fix into repowerd to allow brightness control to still work, anyone interested can find it in this commit: https://github.com/lukefor/repowerd/commit/...c4b82487db3e750