linux-kernel - Re: NVidia Driver Support

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:15:57 +0200
From:	Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@...e.fr>
To:	Marc Perkel <mperkel@...oo.com>
Cc:	Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@....com>,
	Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: NVidia Driver Support - 1680x1050 mode

On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 05:58 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
> Quite frankly, I don't understand why digital LCD
> monitor even have scan rates in the first place. It's
> not a CRT that actually has an electron beam. You
> would thing that it would have a digital interface
> where the computer told the monitor what to draw and
> the monitor deals with it.

That's it. Information is simply the content of the video RAM, given
serially at a certain rate (as the DVI interface is a serial interface
with a fixed rate, you can't redraw the display at 60fps above a certain
pixel quantity).

	Xav


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