Support for LG Ultrafine 5K monitor

I have encountered some strange occurrences.

First, suddenly the LG UltraFine 5K is now working using Arch on kernel 6.0.11. I’ve been posting on this i915 issue thread and while troubleshooting it started to magically work.

Second, a new issue arose. Before when the display wasn’t working and it was disconnected, my 35W charger worked at charging the laptop. When I connected both, even when it wasn’t working, I wasn’t getting any power delivery (orange LED is on). When the display started to magically work, all charging ceased to work. I would connect just my 35W charger, or my 65W charger, or just the display which is supposed to provide 96W charging, and none of them are charging the laptop battery. Any charger when connected (including display) will show the orange LED which is meant to indicate charging, but the battery isn’t charging.

I feel like something went amiss when the display started working; all the charging ceased to work. I’m not sure if this is a software or a hardware issue at this point.

Edit:

Fixed charging issue by disconnecting and reconnecting the battery. However the display no longer registers in Linux, at least on battery levels between 0-75%. Will report back on a full charge.

Edit 2:

The display is not working on full charge (well 96% since the charging stops at around that point).

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