Re:You can't make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver
by ttyyzz on Friday March 01, 2024 @04:08AM
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The connector (resp Port) was too chunky for laptops and you didnt get sound over dvi, but other than that it worked just Fine each and every time. Never had issues upgrading stuff from VGA to DVI in an industrial Environment back then.
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Re:You can't make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver
by djxfade on Friday March 01, 2024 @05:04AM
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Apple had a full-size DVI connector on their PowerBook G4 series of laptops.
Re:You can't make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver
by swiftcoder on Friday March 01, 2024 @05:53AM
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All the G4 PowerBooks I remember used mini-DVI?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini-DVI
Which is cool, but not quite as cool as micro-DVI, which they used for exactly one MacBook Air generation before mini-DisplayPort arrived on the scene
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-DVI
Edit: you are right though. I just pulled up pictures on early G4 variants, and there is indeed full-size DVI. I completely forgot that.
Re:You can't make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver
by CalRobert on Friday March 01, 2024 @09:34AM
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I actually like not having sound in the same cable, it has generally made life more complicated. But my use case could be different from others.
Even DVI had HDCP though, so it too was flawed :-( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content...