ElEctric_EyE wrote:
Dr Jeff, I took out the 'audio stream + VGA' into the HDMI connector as a sign it was VGA to HDMI as the VGA connector has no audio out
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That audio connector would also be needed the other way around for the same reason: the HDMI is supplying both video and audio, the video goes out the VGA connector, so where does the audio go?
I am suspecting, both from the price and the lack of external power input (as well as the product description, of course) that this is HDMI to VGA. It looks and is priced suspiciously like the the DVI to almost-anything "converters" that merely get the wires out to the right connector and rely on the DVI port to be able to send VGA or whatever signals to the right pins. (Though I wasn't aware that HDMI could do that.)
If it helps, I have attached an image of what
VGA to HDMI adapter I successfully use on my old laptop looks like. (This is a standard cheap Chinese product available under a zillion different brand names.) It cost about $12. I can't say how good it will be with odd resolutions and timings, but it does support close to twenty different "standardish" modes, including ones such as 1440x900. (I can go plug it in and grab the full mode list for you if you need it.)
Though personally, given all the trouble these standards are, I might just go back to an analogue monitor. I picked up a nice 9" Sony PVM with all the modes for about fifty bucks on Yahoo Auctions, and didn't Bill Gates say that "no one will ever need more than 15.750 kHz"? :-P