Re: [Hampshire] DisplayPort to VGA adapter needed for PLUG Meeting on 19th March

2016-02-27 Thread Ben Parsonage
Public library in Southampton city centre, near the sea city museum, and the the war memorial. On 27 February 2016 15:14:15 GMT+00:00, Lisi Reisz wrote: >On Saturday 27 February 2016 15:04:29 Ben Parsonage wrote: >> This is a summary some aspects are intentionally wrong in order to >> simpli

Re: [Hampshire] DisplayPort to VGA adapter needed for PLUG Meeting on 19th March

2016-02-27 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 27 February 2016 15:04:29 Ben Parsonage wrote: > This is a summary some aspects are intentionally wrong in order to > simplify, other areas may be incorrect due to my ignorance or poor memory. > This has been written all from memory with no sources if this information > is mission criti

Re: [Hampshire] DisplayPort to VGA adapter needed for PLUG Meeting on 19th March

2016-02-27 Thread Ben Parsonage
My understanding is that you will need an active adapter. The vga protocol is an analogue display protocol that is designed to drive a crt display directly (ignoring some amps) . The protocol has a few clocks (such as pxclk , lsp, vsync etc...) as well as rgb intensity (3 signals) and position

Re: [Hampshire] DisplayPort to VGA adapter needed for PLUG Meeting on 19th March

2016-02-27 Thread Chris. Aubrey-Smith
My understanding is that rather more is required to achieve the digital/analogue conversion. Chris On 27 February 2016 at 13:06, john wrote: > Hi > > My Understanding is that HDMI is VGA plus audio. So HDMI to VGA should > work fine. Only difficulty is that some adaptors have difficulty wit

Re: [Hampshire] DisplayPort to VGA adapter needed for PLUG Meeting on 19th March

2016-02-27 Thread john
Hi My Understanding is that HDMI is VGA plus audio. So HDMI to VGA should work fine. Only difficulty is that some adaptors have difficulty with plug and play detection, but that is not a problem because you can set the VGA size in the computer. John Eayrs On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 07:17:06 + Lis