Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> I still remember how shocked I was when I found out that normal VGA
>> actually allows communication in the reverse direction. ;-)
> 
> Yeah well, I remember a just-installed Windows XP showing the "new hardware
> found" dialog box again and again on its first boot... One of the devices
> was the CRT screen, it actually said brand and model... How the HELL does
> it know that, and WHY would it want to know that?

It might want to know what screenmodes the monitor supports. (And what 
the "optimal" one is in the case of an LCD.) But make and model? Who cares??

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