On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Rogan Creswick wrote: > I'm scoping out thinkpads, with a specific interest in video out > technologies, and I've seen DisplayPort come up a few times. So > far, all I've gleaned is that it's a smaller connector that can > support some forms of DRM to prevent displaying on unauthorized > devices. That doesn't sound particularly compelling, but I'm > curious if it has other benefits. > > Does anyone know what *is* compelling about DispayPort over HDMI / > DVI, and if there will be any driver/support issues associated with > using DisplayPort under Linux?
So far, my experience is that -- on a Linux box -- DisplayPort offers no compelling features nor any repelling problems. (Well, there might be overscan problems when connecting to a television using HDMI, but that's a different problem...) It'd be cool if the machine's hardware allowed audio i/o over DisplayPort/HDMI, but that's not a widespread feature yet. -- Paul Heinlein <> [email protected] <> http://www.madboa.com/ _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
