[haiku-development] Re: Intel GMA X4500 Video Handholding?

  • From: Johannes Wischert <johanneswi@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:22:07 +0100

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
>
>

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