I made no claims, just that with some monitors and card the adapter works. To be safe, just use a monitor with a VGA connector and get past all this probability for problems. The adapters can be very cheap, but if you happen to have one that works with an earlier DVI/VGA monitor, try it before investing. The safest bet is a dual vga/dvi card out output video card, or dvi/vga input on the monitor. The adapters or cables are truly a crap shoot. Anyone who builds or works on desktops would probably tell you that.
I am not sure what this meant: "K9YEQ, and lo! it spake", but, test your stuff before spending $'s. 73, Bill K9YEQ KX3 Field Test #12 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ~BG~ Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 4:09 PM To: Elecraft Subject: Re: [Elecraft] DVI connectors with an P3SVGA "Hysterical Raisins" aside, DVI-A cables/connectors do exist, they're just rather rare. Some people also confuse the DMS-59 connector as a DVI connector. It's becoming more common on some display adaptors for dual-monitor on desktop PCs targeted corporate environments (I see tons of old Dells and HPs with these at the local TRW Swap meet all the time, not to mention we've got'em at work as well). http://www.molex.com/molex/products/family?key=dms59 http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/video/P69708/Qnvs280_EN/connect.htm ./ben W6MCM On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Matthew D. Fuller <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:27:58AM -0500 I heard the voice of Bill > K9YEQ, and lo! it spake thus: > > > Or, more verbosely: The point of the DVI connector is to give a > digital output (hence the Divital Visual Interface ;). For hysterical > raisins, there are pins on the connector that can also carry a > VGA-style analog signal. So a DVI port can theoretically give you > analog, or digital, or both. Or neither, I guess, but then it's just > for show ;) > > Re Joe's mail that I originally replied to: > > > I could add a video card with DVI output to my PC. However, > > searching the internet it appears there are inexpensive cards with > > DVI but they are for DVI-A. The cards with DVI-D output are more > > expensive. > > I'm not sure what card he's finding that has a DVI-A (only analog) > connector on it. I suspect he's just misreading or something's > mislabelled, as there's no real point to that as a port on a card > (you'd generally only find it as a cable, or possibly a monitor-side > port). Every DVI card I've ever seen has a DVI-I port (physical pins > for both A/D; whether it actually has analog signal on them I don't > know). > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
