buzzyrobin, 4 months ago

One downside: I went to test my little HDMI screen, but the M625q is 'only' DisplayPort; guess someone didn't wanna pay the licence fee. 💁‍♀️

Serious question: the port is marked as DP++, but I can find nothing that'll tell me what version of DisplayPort this is (an accordingly whether I need to buy an active DP-to-HDMI adapter or if I can get away with a passive one). The box is an M625q 10UY ThinkCentre. Uh. Help? 😅

tthbaltazar, 4 months ago

@buzzyrobin
actually displayport here has a huge advantage: mutli-stream

you can connect more than a single display to that single displayport connector

also it will very likely work with a passive adapter, almost every source usually does

the igpu is connected to that port, and I can't imagine they somehow got a intel cpu with an igpu that can't do passive hdmi-over-dp

tthbaltazar, 4 months ago

@buzzyrobin
this is why I'm super annoyed that my laptop only has a single HDMI out, and not a single DP out

and I know that the igpu has a dp and two hdmi outs because it shows up under linux sysfs

they just didn't wire it up on the motherboard 😭

c0dec0dec0de, 4 months ago

@tthbaltazar @buzzyrobin seconding the passive DP-HDMI converter, I’ve got a cheap Startech one and I don’t think I’ve run across a device that it doesn’t work with. I’ve got an older HP of similar form factor that I’m using it on now.