I have come into possession of an oled monitor due to a friend giving it to me, however updating its firmware has become a nightmare. It doesnt seem possible to update it without windows. Windows PE live discs do not work at all either. I’ve tried wine and a vm, neither worked.
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=439932 This forum mentions the issue as well but there is no resolution. Thoughts?
Why the fuck would you even need to update the monitor firmware. It’s a screen, that displays things.
I am very confused as well.
Must be one of those new fangled ones with “advanced features” that do stuff like game overlay or aim assist or whatever the kids need their monitor to do these days
What does a monitor need a firmware update for, anyway?
Use a windows VM and then make sure that your hypervisor is properly passing thru the USB device/connection to the monitor to the windows guest vm. Not sure why you’d need a windows host OS for this.
It doesn’t have a USB 😔
That’s weird. I was looking at this docs page and assumed that USB is how the update actually happened.
I had the same issue for a Lenovo bios update. I finally just installed windows to go on an ssd memory stick and booted that to do the update.
You already tested with a standard Windows 10/11 install ISO? Put that on a bootable USB along with your exe but instead of installing you go into the recovery options and should see a way to get to the cmd prompt where you can test run that .exe. It might have the same results as Windows PE but it’s worth a try and downloading the Windows ISO is free anyway.
Worst case if you have a spare HDD/SSD you can put that into your system, temporarily install Windows 10/11 onto it (I don’t think you even need to worry about activation), run your .exe, then shutdown and swap your drives back to your normal setup and be done with it.
But yeah I get what you’re saying, ideally there’s a better way but I’m not too sure what else to suggest within Linux itself.
You evidently have displayport, so the solution seems pretty straightforward. Pull hard disks, install windows on a blank SSD. Send series of nastygrams to MSI.
I was in a very similar situation not too long ago, and my solution was also to just have a spare ssd, install windows on it, make the update and then go back. I tried to use a pe version of windows, as well a full blown windows on a USB. These solutions just didn’t work as expected, somehow the update would always fail. Windows on a proper ssd worked
Boot a proper Windows PE / to go from usb, you can create it via https://github.com/PhoenixPE/PhoenixPE
How did you create yours?
So I actually killed my previous linux distro using hirens bootcd, and the firmware update didnt work for whatever strange reason but windows inserted random shit into my partition on boot which required a full reinstall of my distro. maybe phoenix pe would work idk, i’ll see if a laptop can handle it
