Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!hardy From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: How can I configure my display type? Message-ID: Date: 10 Feb 91 00:14:22 GMT References: <1922@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl> <28510022@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com> <1991Feb9.135625.4241@bnr.ca> Organization: U.C.Irvine, Dept. of Physics Lines: 25 Nntp-Posting-Host: golem.ps.uci.edu In-reply-to: myhui@bnr.ca's message of 9 Feb 91 13:56:25 GMT In article <1991Feb9.135625.4241@bnr.ca> myhui@bnr.ca (Michael Hui) writes: >> The reason you want the computer to know what kind of monitor is connected >> to the video system's output is to allow the computer to program the video >> system's output to suit a variety of monitors that could be connected to that >> output. Even the Apple Macintosh (I think) can do that. The computer talks to the video card; if there is a bijective correspondence between cards and monitor, that suffices; otherwise, e.g., when you can connect a 16in or 19in monitor to the same card, you store that info in some configuration file, e.g., /usr/lib/X11/X0.screens or something like that. I never had any problems (though I don't have any fancy monitors either). As regards the Macintosh: doesn't each dispaly have its own card, and don't you have to go to some "Control Panel" and tell Mac wher its monitors are (if there are more than one)? Hardy Mayer ----****---- Professor Meinhard E. Mayer Department of Physics University of California Irvine, CA, 92717 USA