Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 2019-09-11 9:19 p.m., J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Rene Lamontagne
writes:
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I have HDMI to VGA cable
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Although there's a tendency to call anything that goes between two
connectors a "cable" these days (such as "power cable" for laptops),
HDMI to VGA won't be what _I_ would call a "cable" - it'll have to
have some electronics in it. (And consume power, though that might be
little enough to use the supply on the cable.)

Possibly call them cable adapters.

Rene

There are passive adapters and active adapters.

A DVI-I to VGA is a passive adapter, because it uses
just wires to pass the VGA signals from DVI-I to the
VGA connector. The HDMI to DVI-D are similarly passive.

The HDMI to VGA on the other hand, is an active adapter.
I'm using one of those right now, on the other computer.
It draws +5V from a pin on HDMI, to run an HDMI to VGA
chip inside the adapter.

This is the year of the adapter. If you need active adapters
because your new video card has no VGA output, pick up an
adapter now, while the supply is good. I have an HDMI to VGA
and a DisplayPort to VGA, as examples.

There is still at least one card which has VGA native,
and that's the GT 710. It might even still have driver
support (a miracle). For the most part, newer cards
are missing VGA on the faceplate (which is why it is
the year of the adapter).

Paul