[ale] Dual video on HP pavillion running Centos

[neal at mnopltd.com (Neal Rhodes)]

Indeed, it is thus. 

The DVI connector on the system board did not have the four pins
surrounding the large blade connector, 
and the DVI-to-VGA adapter would not fit. 

But, after pondering it a bit yesterday, I tried the cable which is DVI
at one end and HDMI at the other, and voila, 
that sucker worked right out of the box.   With the stock Intel video
chipset.    2 monitors at 1920x. 

I just had to convince my wife to swap 24" monitors, so I got the one
with VGA + 2 HDMI. 

This stuff just gets more like magic the less I have to dork with the
details.   I'm almost forgetting the pain of 
setting up X in Fedora Core 2. 

Thanks, 

Neal 

On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 22:59 -0400, Phil Turmel wrote:

> On 07/22/2013 10:46 PM, Neal Rhodes wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> DVI connectors can support both digital and analog signals, but aren't
> required to.  If I recall correctly, a DVI-VGA converter won't plug into
> a digital-only DVI receptacle, and an DVI-HDMI converter won't plug into
> an analog-only DVI receptacle.
> 
> Digital DVI is (bidirectionally) compatible with HDMI, but without the
> audio or the content protection.  I suspect that you just need a DVI to
> HDMI cable to connect your second HDMI monitor.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Phil
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