By far, this seems to be the most popular series of chipsets for providing USB video adapters.

If you are concerned about drivers being a vehicle to malware, I would like to suggest the following:ġ) Look for devices that use the DisplayLink chipset. I don't trust drivers supplied for these adapters (drivers could easily be a source of malware), as so far all of these adapters seem to be devices from China (product descriptions often are written with poor English grammar).Īs far as I know, pretty much all of these adapters require drivers to be installed. Same thing with joysticks/gamepads, and I'm sure there's also other USB device classes, that usually have their own OS-supplied generic drivers in Windows.īut what about monitors and graphics adapters? Isn't there such a thing as a USB monitor class, or USB graphics card class? And doesn't Windows have builtin generic drivers for these? If so, why do all the adapters I see on Amazon avoid using the OS-supplied drivers, and instead use their own custom drivers?Īnd if such a USB-A to VGA (or USB-A to HDMI) adapter does exist that uses the OS-supplied drivers, where can I find it? I want to buy an adapter like this, but don't want to install a separate driver for it. I was thinking though, webcams have their own USB class called UVC (USB Video Class) with a builtin Windows driver. None seem to rely on generic Windows drivers. And they all seem to come with a driver CD (or says to go to their website to download the driver), according to the product descriptions on Amazon.

I've seen a number of USB-A to VGA or HDMI adapters on Amazon. By driverless, I mean one that uses an OS-supplied driver, and doesn't require separate installation of its own custom driver.

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