ols6000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
At 03:23 PM 12/11/2006, you wrote:
If how FC6 destroyed your monitor is _not_ important, then what's the
point posting about it? From a techies point of view, the how is the
most important part.
You are right, from the point of view of those that are maintaining
Fedora, and I hope those techies can track down the problem and fix it.
I was, however, responding to those who were claiming that some piece of
hardware was at fault, rather than FC6. Although I cannot prove that FC6
installation caused the monitor to fail, the circumstances are such that
any reasonable person would reach that conclusion, even without being
able explain the details.
I'm fairly reasonable, but I didn't reach that conclusion. Under no
circumstances in a perfect binary world should software EVER be able
destroy hardware. I don't believe it did. I don't believe either that
ANY operating system should be responsible for checking the safeties on
video cards and monitors.
If software gives a command to a video card to run in a resolution or
frequency not supported by the monitor, then I believe ultimately it is
the monitor which should simply refuse the signal, or communicate back
to the video card that it is not supported. Or the video card should
check what the monitor can do and communicate that back to the software.
Under no circumstance should either the monitor or the video card (but I
believe it really is the monitor's responsibility) just blindly accept
the signal and blow itself out.
I believe it was a safety in the monitor that has failed.
I personally believe that is a more reasonable conclusion. Especially
seeing as far as I know the Anaconda installer really runs pretty basic
resolutions/frequencies when it installs Linux.
Regards,
Ed.
