Aaah! - the old 'special exceptions' clause, when ever it involves the
subject at hand......
I rest my case.
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"all actually need drivers"
No they don’t, the graphics card out puts a standerdized
signel, the
operating system just "tells" the graphics card what to
show, it
proccess what is to be displayed, and out puts it as a
standared
single (this applies for both RGB and DVI).
.....and what the heck do you think a Driver is/does??
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I think a device driver controls a device, which is true for nearly
all devices, one of these exceptions is of coures the monitor, which
dosnt need a driver, becasue it is upto the monitor to detect what
resoluton, depth and refrash rate the graphics card is displaying at,
and the graphics card outputs a standared signel hence needs no
driver, as it operates nearly totaly indipendant of the rest of the
computer, the only thing it depends upon is a signle that it
recognises. Modern monitors of course support plug and play, which
means that it will (or at least atempt) to tell the operating system
what resolutions it is capable of. Please take a note from the Linux
handbook, when configuring X (the GUI system for unix based OSs) you
don’t install a monitor driver, becasue monitors don’t need or
requier drivers, you do how ever specifie lots of details about the
monitor so that X is configured to display properly, of course there
have been huge lists of diffrent monitors and there vendors put
together to make configuration easyer but they are not drivers, just
configuration files.