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Re: How to know if DVI connection is digital or analogue?



On Mon,08.Mar.10, 12:59:13, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> DVI supports both digital and analgue connections (that's how VGA
> adaptors work). I have a user who fought with his Windows drivers to
> force digital connection, even though he was connecting with the DVI
> ports over a DVI cable it was sending analogue until he configured it
> properly. Not that he is running a Debian derivative, how can he check
> which connection (digital or analogue) is being used?
> 
> Notice that he can't actually _see_ and difference on the screen :)
> But it is important to him to know that it is in fact digital.

Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log for DFP-0 or VGA-0 output(s).

Regards,
Andrei
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