Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/03/19

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Subject: [Leica] older monitors and windows 7
From: john at chiaroscuro.co.nz (John McMaster)
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:32:31 +1300
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You can get drivers (or a Mac picks everything up automatically ;-)) but
they are not essential. Usually just to tell the graphics card what
resolutions/refresh rates it can support.

john

-----Original Message-----

I'm not an expert but I don't recall seeing drivers for specific monitor
models.  AFAIK it's only the graphics card(s) that need them.



--- On Sat, 3/19/11, Mark Pope <mark at whitedogs.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> Do PC monitors need drivers, or do I just need driver(s) for the 
> graphics card?? I'm a bit confused because when go into? control panel 
> and select displays, it says 'plug and play monitor', so presumably 
> uses a generic driver.
>
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