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Re: Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint Adapter (and VGA)

From rhkramer@gmail.com
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint Adapter (and VGA)
Date 2020-12-03 15:00 +0100
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Thanks!

On Thursday, December 03, 2020 05:15:12 AM tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> USB-C is a mess. Quoth [1]:
> 
>    "A device with a Type-C connector does not necessarily
>    implement USB, USB Power Delivery, or any Alternate Mode:
>    the Type-C connector is common to several technologies while
>    mandating only a few of them"
> 
> That said, Display Port, Thunderbolt, MHL and HDMI alternate modes seem
> to implement VGA output with an "active" cable, which is an euphemism
> for "there's some chips in there".
> 
> So your computer's USB-C socket must fit, your dongle, aka "active
> cable" must fit, and they have to be capable to talk to each other.

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Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint Adapter (and VGA) Rh Kramer <rhkramer.s31@gmail.com> - 2020-11-28 15:10 +0100
  Re: Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint  Adapter (and VGA) Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-11-28 18:00 +0100
  Re: Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint  Adapter (and VGA) Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-11-29 07:30 +0100
    Re: Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint Adapter (and VGA) Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-11-29 18:30 +0100
    Re: Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint Adapter (and VGA) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-12-02 16:30 +0100
      Re: Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint  Adapter (and VGA) Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-12-02 17:00 +0100
        Re: Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint Adapter (and VGA) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-12-02 17:50 +0100
      Re: Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint  Adapter (and VGA) David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-12-03 10:40 +0100
        Re: Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint  Adapter (and VGA) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-12-03 11:20 +0100
          Re: Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint  Adapter (and VGA) David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-12-03 11:40 +0100
            Re: Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint  Adapter (and VGA) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-12-03 11:50 +0100
              Re: Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint  Adapter (and VGA) David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-12-03 22:10 +0100
            Re: Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint Adapter (and VGA) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-12-03 15:00 +0100
              Re: Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint  Adapter (and VGA) David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-12-03 22:10 +0100
          Re: Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint Adapter (and VGA) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-12-03 15:00 +0100
        Re: Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint Adapter (and VGA) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-12-03 15:00 +0100
          Re: Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint  Adapter (and VGA) Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-12-04 11:10 +0100

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