Monitor destroyed by install

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 12/12/06, ols6000 at sbcglobal.net <ols6000 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> At 06:19 PM 12/11/2006, you wrote:
> >I also wonder how you determined that it's the digital video input stage
> >of the monitor with a fault.  And even if so, that's not going to be a
> >frequency dependent issue, that's just going to be input voltage issues.
>
> Because the VGA input of the same monitor works. And, the digital
> input works too, but only if you fool the video card into thinking
> there's a digital monitor plugged in. My conclusion is that the
> monitor is no longer sending back the "I am a digital monitor" signal
> on the DVI cable.
>
> As far as the freqency dependence, I'm just quoting from the monitor
> manual. The monitor itself is high quality, and it's not just a
> coincidence that it failed 15 sec after Linux detected the video
> card. True, there's a 10^-6 chance of it just happening to occur at
> that moment, but the much more likely probability is that it was FC6.
>
> It seems to me that too many of you are ready to deny that there
> could possibly be an problem with FC6, for various reasons. Instead,
> you collectively should take this occasion to figure out what could
> cause the observed behavior.

We would all like to know. But I seem to remember you saying earlier
that that did not matter.

> Since obviously I'm not going to get
> another monitor and try the experiment again, the issue will have to
> be attacked from the software side,by those of you who are familiar
> with the drivers, etc.
>
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