[ale] Dual video on HP pavillion running Centos

[Phil Turmel]

On 07/22/2013 10:46 PM, Neal Rhodes wrote:
> Thanks.   In fact I am staring at one of those little buggers, which is
> sitting in the flotsam and jetsam on my desk.  I'm guess that came WITH
> this HP, to enable lowest common denominator VGA output, since they put
> in a card which didn't have vga. 
> 
> And it's sitting on my desk because the little bugger would not go into
> the DVI port on the HP card.  Something about the pins was
> farschtunken.

DVI connectors can support both digital and analog signals, but aren't
required to.  If I recall correctly, a DVI-VGA converter won't plug into
a digital-only DVI receptacle, and an DVI-HDMI converter won't plug into
an analog-only DVI receptacle.

Digital DVI is (bidirectionally) compatible with HDMI, but without the
audio or the content protection.  I suspect that you just need a DVI to
HDMI cable to connect your second HDMI monitor.

HTH,

Phil