>> 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 :) -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/880dece01003091122k3a3c690ej65e138f276eb4...@mail.gmail.com
