[PLUG] Hardware question

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sun Oct 27 15:57:11 UTC 2019


I'm still not receiving messages from the plug mail list. This response is
to a message on the archive:

On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 16:40:51 -0700 (PDT)
Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

>> I have a Radeon workstation graphics card with 4 display ports and a
>> dp->hdmi converter. Does it matter into which dp port the adapter is
>> fitted?

> Probably not. DP has a pin that's used to detect if a device is attached
> or not. Best practice is to use the lowest ports first though.

The four ports are not labeled in any way. I assume that "lowest" refers to
a port number, not its position on the mounting bracket.

Thanks,

Rich




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