On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Gabriele Biffi <mlist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > François Revol wrote: >> >>> And anyway, every DVI port out there integrates a VGA port - you just >>> need a cheap adapter or cable. And the lesser known fact is that >>> every >> >> Hmm I'm not so sure... >> IIRC DVI has 2 flavours (digital and analog, sometimes both), and only >> analog ones actually generate VGA signals. > > Yes the standard does include an analog only port (the DVI-A), but what's > the point of it? > > So far, all the cards I seen had DVI-I ("integrated" analog and digital). > Let me know if you find a digital only (i.e. DVI-D) card ;-) > If you use an hdmi->DVI adapter for example you only get the digital part and afaik there are cards with only an hdmi-out (the gumstix for example only has an hdmi out..) > > Regards, > > Gabriele - www.biffuz.it > >