My laptop has been having problems not charging and the top row of the keyboard stopped working. In my pursuit of a replacement I realized how ridiculously cheap Intel iMacs have become.
And then I realized that you can gut them and convert them into an insanely good computer monitor after the internals die.
I was looking for a dead one but somehow managed to get my hands on a working 5k 2017 iMac for $150. God the display is glorious.
For the time being Im just going to use the existing internals since they’re still functioning.
I installed Fedora on an external drive and everything seems to be functional. I managed to get fractional scaling functioning. However the output only goes up to 4k. And while thats still really nice, the extra resolution does make an obvious difference when sitting ~1 foot away.
Has anyone been able to get 5k working?
What does the display setting look like? Can you just set the resolution manually
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In that case I think it might be at a lower level.
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Computers are built on abstraction. You start at the most abstracted layer and work your way down. I would next check what resolutions are exposed in the kernel. If 5k isn’t exposed I would check the kernel itself. At the very bottom is hardware but I think this is a software issue. It may just be flat out not supported by Linux.
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