sDVO ADD2 DVI Cards
The Intel Driver Documentation says:
- You can purchase (for around $20) an 'sDVO' card which plugs into the PCI-E slot and offers DVI support in various flavors. This is just an adapter board which connects the onboard graphics chip with a DVI connector using the sDVO portion of the PCI-E standard; it's not an external graphics adapter.
There doesn't seem to be a lot of information about these cards, so I thought I would consolidate some of it here in the hopes that it helps other people looking for a solution.
At http://lwn.net/Articles/194821/ Keith Packard from Intel said:
We've bought a huge pile of sDVO cards to work on the modesetting branch. One thing we discovered is that there are two flavors of sDVO cards, the ADD2-N and ADD2-R cards. The suffix indicates whether the card is set up in 'N'ormal or 'R'everse orientation; Normal cards use the first channels on the PCI-E connector while Reverse cards use the last channels.
All of the motherboards we have support only Normal cards, I guess the theory for Reverse cards is that you could plug in a PCI-E x4 card into the same PCI-E bus as one of the Reverse cards and have both things working at the same time.
And, all of the ADD2-N cards we've got work just fine with everything from 915 through 965.
I can see where the AGP-based ADD (not ADD2) cards would cause problems; they don't use a standard interface so the driver has to have support for each specific card. We're facing that with the modesetting branch and we're collecting information on as many of those as we can.
In summary - ADD2-N cards 'just work' everywhere we've tried them. ADD cards require card-specific driver changes.
According to one manufacturer, ADD2-N cards are intended for ATX form factor boards while ADD2-R cards are intended for BTX form factor boards. That would be in line with Keith's comments above as I believe that all the Intel boards are ATX.
Cards
Eric Anholt has a List of ADD2 Cards. Please fill in any additional information about these cards, or their specifications, features, and compatibility here.
ADD2 (SDVO) Cards
- ASUS DVI-ADD2 (DVI-D, Same as HP?)
- HP DY674A (DVI-D, Normal pinout)
- Manufacturer Specs
- Manufacturer Specs (shows pinout, search for model number)
- HP DY673A (DVI-D, Reverse pinout)
- Manufacturer Specs
- Manufacturer Specs (shows pinout, search for model number)
- MOLEX 79530-5004 (DVI, ADD2-R, 16x, UPC:8-41531-06000-8)
- MOLEX 79530-5005 (DVI, ADD2-N, 4x, UPC:8-41531-06001-5)
- MOLEX 79530-5006 (DVI, ADD2-R, 16x, UPC:8-41531-06002-2)
- MOLEX 79530-5007 (DVI, ADD2-N, 4x, UPC:8-41531-06003-9)
- Prolink ADD-7021-DVI-T (DVI, S-Video, ADD2-R/N?, CH7021 chipset)
- Prolink ADD-7307-DVI-N (DVI, ADD2-N?, CH7307B chipset)
- Prolink ADD-7307-DVI-R (DVI, ADD2-R?, CH7307B chipset)
- Prolink PV-CH7312 (DVI?, CH7312 chipset?)
- Prolink PV-CH7315 (DVI, HDMI?, CH7315 chipset?)
- DELL J4571 (DVI?, ADD2-N)
- Wintec 35111141 (DVI-I)
- Wintec 35111142 (DVI-I, HDCP)
- Wintec 35111140 (Dual DVI-I, standard cable)
- Wintec 35111147 (DMS59, DVI, Y-cable)
- Wintec 35111149 (HDMI)
- Lenovo 73P2516 (DVI-I)
- Silicon Image Orion ADD2-N DUAL PAD x16 Card (Sil 1364 chipset, Same as ASUS?)
ADD (DVO) Cards
- Kontron ADD-LVDS 820935 (LVDS, CH7017 chipset)
- Kontron ADD-DVI 720930 (DVI, TV, s-video/composite)
- Kontron ADD-DVI-I/CRT 820942 (DVI-I, internal CRT, internal LVDS)
- HP DD505A (DVI-D, Sil164 chipset)
- AOpen 91.88V10.001 (DVI, TV, cvbs, s-video)