Re: Winmonitors are here!
- From: Aragorn <stryder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 21:33:31 GMT
On Tuesday 04 July 2006 23:03, Yugo stood up and spoke the following
words to the masses in /comp.os.linux.misc...:/
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It's a winmonitor! The adjustments are much more precise than on an
ordinary monitor. Some can even be made on only part of the picture!
I had often wondered why monitor manufacturers hadn't built this kind
of monitor before. Why pay for switches that can break when all the
switches you need are on a mouse. And adjusting a monitor once in a
while doesn't require much processing power...
And we all know that switches break more often than software, right?
Wrong!
Pressing a few buttons on a monitor sure is a lot faster and easier than
having to wade through obscure menus and configuration panels to adjust
your monitor.
It's also quite senseless in a multi-user set up, but then again,
Windows was designed as a single-user operating system - and I use the
term "operating system" loosely in this context.
In the present struggle to bring the prices down, I can't see how
other manufacturers could not follow suite. Samsung's new monitors all
seem to run this software...
So, if Linux wants to make it on the desktop, it better make it fast,
so that deals can be made with monitors manufacturers.
Thinko... GNU/Linux doesn't *want* to make it on the desktop.
GNU/Linux is a Free operating system - as in "freedom" - and doesn't
have any economical ambitions. Please leave this Microsoft-induced
urban legend behind you, because it is only that: an urban legend.
It's getting late. For the time being, the instruction manual explains
that the monitor may be used with Linux: all there is to do is modify
the XF86Config file. Then you get the good refresh rate... but you
can't change anything else, not even brightness, contrast or gamma.
This is yet one other example of how the hardware manufacturers build
hardware that was designed for Windows, rather than that Microsoft or
any other OS vendor would produce software to work with certain
hardware.
It really is an upside-down world, and it looks like it's not going to
get any better... :-/
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With kind regards,
*Aragorn*
(Registered GNU/Linux user #223157)
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