Yeh I figured it needed to be active, couldn’t find any and the ones that claimed (and ultimately turned out to be lying) to be dual link weren’t active so unsurprising they didn’t work.
That’s a very interesting idea about the double conversion with displayport though, I never thought of that. Are the displayport to DVI dual link cables easier to get or are they unicorns as well?
Yeh I figured it needed to be active, couldn’t find any and the ones that claimed (and ultimately turned out to be lying) to be dual link weren’t active so unsurprising they didn’t work.
That’s a very interesting idea about the double conversion with displayport though, I never thought of that. Are the displayport to DVI dual link cables easier to get or are they unicorns as well?
We used displayport to dvi all the time in that job. Both dvi i and dvi d