On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 09:35:38PM +1100, David wrote: > On Thu, 3 Dec 2020 at 21:15, <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote: [...] > > USB-C is a mess. Quoth [1]: [...] > Does the active cable have a USB-C connector on the VGA end? Yes, it should. > The comment I responded to speaks of analog VGA signals > on a USB-C connector. Going by the Wikipedia reference, no. Unless/until there's an Alternate Mode defining that; I can't imagine this is going to happen. > I thought "that's weird" so before I wrote I had a quick read of all the main > links under the heading > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB-C#Alternate_Mode_partner_specifications > and I saw no trace of any such thing. For that to happen, there must be some entity with enough stamina and financial power to back a hypothetical VGA Alternate Mode. Who would have interest in that? > As always, I'm happy to be corrected if wrong. I take no interest in > "active cables" myself, modern passive cables are unreliable enough, > but if someone wants to provide a link then I will enjoy a chuckle that > someone somewhere thinks this is good engineering. Tickling your favourite search engine (let's hope it ain't Google ;-) yields tons of "USB-C to VGA" adapters. For all we know, they should be "active". Those things aren't driven by engineering. They are driven by marketing. Cheers - t
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