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

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:33:44 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:

(none of my previous posts seem to have arrived to the list. Gmane has 
been... again)

>> The only other choices cable-wise are DVI-I which can carry both
>> signals, and this should result in autoselection of the correct output
>> (which should be digital) and DVI-A (which you don't need to care
>> about).  If you have a DVI-I cable, then it might select analogue for
>> some bizarre reason.  Swapping for a DVI-D cable would resolve that if
>> you can't work out how to do it in software.
>>
>>
> Yes, he has DVI-I ports on the monitor and on the motherboard, and a
> DVI-I cable that came with the monitor. Maybe it's time to take a pair
> of needle-nosed pliers to that cable!

Or better yet, using a DVI-D to DVI-D cable, that was *exactly* what I 
suggested in my /very firt/ reply >:-)

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón