"Is the 11th Gen display connector HDMI or DP?", and other inevitably annoying follow-up questions

[Craig_Bartlett]

@MJ1

It is eDP, but you will not be able to plug into the motherboard connector directly. Laptop motherboard display connectors don’t have a standard pinout. Luckily, the other end of the Framework display cable, which normally plugs into the LCD, is a common pinout used on many LCDs. It’s 40pin, 4 eDP lane, non-touch. Framework-13 display side connector pinout: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/Framework-Laptop-13/tree/main/Display#pinout

As Shiroudan said you may be able to use a eDP-40 to DP board, but you must use the Framework display cable. Check that the board accepts the Framework display side pinout. There are boards that don’t give their pinout, I would not buy them. There is more than one common eDP-40 pinout.

Again, to be clear, do not plug any 3rd party cable directly into the Framework motherboard’s connector.

For reference, Framework-13 motherboard side connector pinout: Framework-Laptop-13/Mainboard at main · FrameworkComputer/Framework-Laptop-13 · GitHub

Thanks for the quick response.

If I understand you correctly, I can get myself a Framework cable (something I didn’t buy as I wasn’t sure what kind of options would be available, if any) and use that to connect to the mobo’s internal connector, then the output from that cable ‘should’ be compatible with any converter board.

That leads to another problem, aside from the board referenced in the ‘reuse the old display’ post which I’ve lost the link to, I’ve not seen any maker boards that come with a 40 pin connector and a standard DP out, or even miniDP. Since that used the display port cable to generate the image and a load of surface mount electronics I have my doubts that particular gadget would send a full signal in the direction I’m aiming for.
Do these pre-built converter boards even exist or am I searching for hens’ teeth? In which case, should I go with a board that has a 40 pin connector and traces to 40 holes so that I can simply wire up my own DP-out port, if I’m going to continue down this route?

Thanks