USB-C DP alt mode support?

Emmanuel Vadot manu at bidouilliste.com
Tue Jul 7 09:40:08 UTC 2020


On Tue, 07 Jul 2020 09:12:15 +0000
myfreeweb <greg at unrelenting.technology> wrote:

> 
> 
> On July 7, 2020 7:25:45 AM UTC, "Zane C. B-H." <v.velox at vvelox.net> wrote:
> >Howdy!
> >
> >Any one know if USB-C DP alt mode is currently supported or not? Was 
> >just looking into this prior to making a choice on hardware and am not 
> >really finding any useful info.
> 
> On Chromebooks at least, alt modes are handled by the EC (embedded controller), no special OS support is required. Works well on my pixelboook.
> 
> I guess most laptops are like that too.. (??)

 Not really, my usb-c adapter to hdmi works on intel (skylake, haven't
tested on my whiskeylake) but not on my amd laptop (picasso), haven't
debugged why yet but I think we might need some sort of driver for this.

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