[ale] Dual video on HP pavillion running Centos

[neal at mnopltd.com (Neal Rhodes)]

Thanks.   In fact I am staring at one of those little buggers, which is
sitting in the flotsam and jetsam on my desk.  I'm guess that came WITH
this HP, to enable lowest common denominator VGA output, since they put
in a card which didn't have vga. 

And it's sitting on my desk because the little bugger would not go into
the DVI port on the HP card.  Something about the pins was
farschtunken. 


On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 16:47 -0400, Scott Plante wrote:
> "Neal Rhodes" <neal at mnopltd.com> wrote:
> ...
> > The unit was delivered with an additional card: an HP 634478-001,
> which
> > is an HP flavor of AMD Radeon, which has DVI and HDMI only. (no VGA;
> > weird.) 
> ...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> This isn't responsive to your main question, but regarding the above:
> DVI-I includes VGA signals in the connector--you just need a cheap
> pin-format converter to use a VGA monitor/cable. DVI-D skips the VGA
> signal/pins. A quick Googling says that HP model card is DVI-I so you
> could use something like this, which I have purchased and used
> ($2.69):
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001OBVCO2/
> 
> 
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