Re: How to know if DVI connection is digital or analogue?
>> Why get a new cable? His current cable works fine.
>
> Because is a cheap and easy way to assure the connection goes fully
> digital.
>
A software solution would be cheaper, and is in my own opinion "the
fix", not a workaround like a new cable is.
>> He just wants to know
>> whether the video is analogue or digital, because in Windows on the same
>> hardware he had to especially configure it to send digital.
>
> Never heard from that situation. VGA and DVI outputs are very well
> separated in both, graphic cards and displays :-?
>
No, it was analogue output over the DVI-I cable. Apparently it
defaults to analogue, and one has to install a driver to get digital.
> Anyway, what tool is he using to achieve that (forcing windows going
> digital) and what tool is being used to discern the signal type? That
> will be quite interesting :-)
>
I suppose that it was the driver software, I'm not sure. I sent him a
text message a few minutes ago to ask but he's not writing back. On
windows most drivers have a userspace application too, that sits in
the system tray and gives the user one more thing to get frustrated at
:)
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