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Everyone knows you can’t plug an HDMI cable into a DisplayPort… port, and yet a recent video from [Jon Bringus] challenges that seemingly obvious assumption. The hardware in question is …read more Continue reading Unusual Port Combines DisplayPort and HDMI
The DisplayPort altmode is semi-proprietary, but it can absolutely be picked apart if we try. Last time, we found a cool appnote describing the DisplayPort altmode in detail, switched the …read more Continue reading DisplayPort: Taming The Altmode
Really, the most modern implementation of DisplayPort is the USB-C DisplayPort altmode, synonymous with “video over USB-C”, and we’d miss out if I were to skip it. Incidentally, our last …read more Continue reading DisplayPort: Tapping The Altmode
One amazing thing about USB-C is its high-speed capabilities. The pinout gives you four high-speed differential pairs and a few more lower-speed pairs, which let you pump giant amounts of …read more Continue reading All About USB-C: High-Speed Interfaces
Tablets, slates, phones, and fablets, there are no shortage of electronics that take the Star-Trek-ish form factor of a handheld rectangle of glass that connects you to everything. This is the world we live in, but unfortunately it’s not currently a world with many Linux options, and certainly not one …read more
USB Type-C itself is just a connector, and it supports DisplayPort Alternate Mode, as well as HDMI Alternate Mode, depending on the manufacturer.
Does this at all mean that if you’re using a DisplayPort or HDMI adapter in yo… Continue reading With a USB Type-C port, can you switch DisplayPort or HDMI Alternate Mode back to USB after using an adapter? [on hold]
Regardless of how you might feel about Apple and the ecosystem they’ve cultured over the years, you’ve got to give them some credit in the hardware department. Their “Retina” displays are a perfect example; when they brought the 2,048 by 1,536 panel to the iPad 3, the technology instantly became …read more
Continue reading Put Those iPad Displays To Work With This eDP Adapter
Solve challenges with multi-monitor configurations via DisplayPort
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