DVI to VGA adapter?

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My LCD has 15 pin D-SUB connector (regular VGA), and I tried the DVI to VGA adapter to connect the LCD to the DVI port instead of VGA port.
It didn't work. No display. Why isn't this working? What am I doing wrong?

 

[Peter]

It will work only if your graphics card has a DVI-I port there. If it's DVI-D, then there is no analog signal on the DVI connector and the DVI-VGA adapter has nothing to work with.

 

[Link]

I have Radeon 9500 and I'm using the DVI-VGA adapter that came with the card. Shouldn't it work?

 

[norder69]

Did you install Hydra-vision? That's what is for ...

You need to activiate it in the "Display properties", "Setting", "Advance" button ... if I remember correctly, from there you get a whole set of ATI options (Sorry, I am not at my computer). In there you need to turn on "display in multiple screens" (or something like that).

Basically, you have to turn on Hydra-vision ... Heh, stupid ATI didn't have a manual for these things, those idiots!

 

[Link]

Hmm..it's still not working. I don't see that "display in multiple screen" option in the display properties.
Again, what I'm trying to do is to have the display output from the DVI port through the DVI to VGA adapter to my non-DVI LCD display instead of VGA port.
I think this works with regular CRT monitors, but for some unknown reasons it's not working with LCD.

 

[Peter]

It does. Using my brother's shiny new 17" VGA-only LCD as we speak. Background is, a VGA connected LCD feeds the absolute same PnP data down to the graphics card as a CRT would - the graphics card and its software won't notice a difference.