[ale] dvi to vga converter

Adrin Story haswes at mindspring.com
Wed Sep 8 21:01:29 EDT 2004


Great,  My card is no longer the latest and greatest.   I wonder how 
long I will have to wait for the Digital KVM switch.

Adrin


Stephan Uphoff wrote:

>Take a look at:
>http://www.flattvpeople.com/tutorials/dvi-connections.asp
>Looks like the card port in digital only. 
>
>Good excuse to buy a LCD screen ;-)
>
>	STephan 
>
>On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 19:37, Geoffrey wrote:
>  
>
>>So, I picked up a new box that has two video outputs, one dvi, one vga.
>>  I have two vga monitors I'm going to connect to it, and had a
>>dvi<->vga adapter.  Doesn't fit.  Different configuration.  So, I can't
>>find one of these buggers anywhere.  I didn't even know there was more
>>than one type.  No luck at MicroCenter or CompUSA.  Fry's has probably
>>got it, but damn, it's a hike for me.
>>
>>Anyone else seen more then one type of dvi connection on video cards?
>>
>>Wierd thing is the card is an ati card and the adapter I have came with
>>another ati card.
>>
>>The main difference that makes it impossible to use is the adapter has a
>>flat pin that sits on one side of the connector and it has two round
>>pins on either side of it, kinda like this:
>>
>>. .
>>---
>>. .
>>
>>Where as the card has the slot for the flat pin, but does not have the
>>four smaller pins.  That's not all that's different, but obviously it's
>>enough.
>>
>>Suggestions are welcome...
>>
>>--
>>Until later, Geoffrey       Registered Linux User #108567
>>                             AT&T Certified UNIX System Programmer - 1995
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