Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: NVidia Driver Support - 1680x1050 mode | From | Xavier Bestel <> | Date | Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:15:57 +0200 |
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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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