Semi-OT: DVI-to-HDMI cables

[Giles Orr]

My apologies for A) top-posting, and B) replying to myself (I wanted
to keep the original post attached to this) ...  I'm very glad to find
a way around the high price of HDMI cables, thanks Ted and Scott.  Can
anyone address driving a high resolution display through an HDMI input
using Linux?  Thanks.

On Dec 30, 2007 10:13 AM, Giles Orr <gilesorr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I'm considering buying a 1080p LCD TV and perhaps this isn't OT at all
> because I have every intention of using it as a monitor with Linux as
> well as for movies.  A friend has an older Sceptre 37" and we had very
> little trouble getting it set up at 1920x1080 with Linux - but it has
> a VGA in.  A few of the current batch of LCD TVs come with VGA ins,
> and I think I've seen one or two with DVI ins, but pretty much all of
> the ones I'm looking at come with HDMI ins.  So if I don't get DVI/VGA
> in, and I buy one of those ludicrously expensive DVI-to-HDMI cables
> (currently about $75 each), would it allow me to run the LCD TV as a
> monitor at a full 1920x1080 resolution?  I have a video card that will
> support this.

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