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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.

Are you surgesting speakers need drivers?


What the heck do you think a sound card is?

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I know what a sound card is, my point is that speakers don’t need
drivers full stop bececasue they do not interact with other hardware
of the PC except the sound card, and then they only recive the signel.
This is how it is with non plug-and-play monitors, monitors when used
with a PC running windows only "need" drivers becasue windows says
they must. In reality, they don’t need drivers at all, the operating
system just needs to know the correct specifications of the monitor,
and windows gets this information using windows drivers. Natruly with
plug-and-play monitors the OS will usualy automaticly detect what
monitor it is, and then use a configuration list to look up what the
monitors correct configuration is. If , however, the monitor found
dosn’t have a matching modle/vendor etc., or the monitor is not plug
and play complient, then most OSs (including windows) will display
using a
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_display_standard]Computer
display standard
but the user can change that at there descretion (and at they’er
own risk).