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MBP Adding Another DVI Monitor

Sorry, nothing yet. I reminded my friend about it early this week, but they're having some rather severe problems at his office and he can't really be bugging people about purchase orders right now. My best suggestion at this point, at least until I can get him to confirm exactly where it came from, is to try and find one that looks like the picture he gave me. I'm going to keep trying.
 
This is an interesting idea. However, I don't think this has to do with dual link. As my understanding is dual link just ups the clock cycle or transmission rate.

I think the post below is a more likely scenario. Although I could be wrong.

http://www.3dgameman.com/reviews/aiw_dual_display/aiw_dual_display.html

The basic idea, in the above article, is the DVI-I standard has analog and digital on different connectors. Using a splitter you can split the analog and digital connections. If the video card supports it, you should be able run "true" dual screens. There are several issues. You also need a VGA monitor or one that possibly supports DVI-A(which is maybe how your friend got it working from looking at the cable?), and a DVI-D monitor. DVI-D is just normal DVI. It also looks like a lot of people had problems with monitor detection on the VGA connector. The workaround was to deactivate a certain pin on the VGA connector. There are adapters it seems, others just ripped out the PIN instead.

Read the post above and ignore the flamewar that sort of surrounds it. I would suggest skipping to like page 7 or so.
 
jaywhy said:
This is an interesting idea. However, I don't think this has to do with dual link. As my understanding is dual link just ups the clock cycle or transmission rate.

I think the post below is a more likely scenario. Although I could be wrong.

http://www.3dgameman.com/reviews/aiw_dual_display/aiw_dual_display.html

The basic idea, in the above article, is the DVI-I standard has analog and digital on different connectors. Using a splitter you can split the analog and digital connections. If the video card supports it, you should be able run "true" dual screens. There are several issues. You also need a VGA monitor or one that possibly supports DVI-A(which is maybe how your friend got it working from looking at the cable?), and a DVI-D monitor. DVI-D is just normal DVI. It also looks like a lot of people had problems with monitor detection on the VGA connector. The workaround was to deactivate a certain pin on the VGA connector. There are adapters it seems, others just ripped out the PIN instead.

Read the post above and ignore the flamewar that sort of surrounds it. I would suggest skipping to like page 7 or so.
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jaywhy, I think you are on to something here... For this to be the case, the OP's friend's displays (19" Dells; he didn't say what model) would have to accept input from either DVI-D or DVI-A.

Then the cable would either have to have different pinouts on the female connectors; some with digital pins and some with the 4 analog pins (which is why I wanted a photo of the ends, if possible to see if there is copper in the sockets indicating a connection) or if it's the case the splitter is DVI-I all the way through, something about the Dells are "smart" for one to pick the digital signal and the other to pick the analog.

I woudn't put too much faith in this being a routine setup - I think it's very likely that it won't work on many people's setups and displays. I sure would be happy if I had it though. ;)
 
admiraldennis said:
Has anybody else tried DVI-I -> DVI-D and DVI-A/VGA on seperate monitors?
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I haven't testing anything yet... I've been unable to find a promising cable (one that looks like DVI-I on the input and a DVI-D and DVI-A on the outputs)
 
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