Monitor destroyed by install

[Edward Dekkers]

ols6000 at sbcglobal.net wrote:
> At 03:23 PM 12/11/2006, you wrote:
>> If how FC6 destroyed your monitor is _not_ important, then what's the
>> point posting about it? From a techies point of view, the how is the
>> most important part.
> 
> You are right, from the point of view of those that are maintaining 
> Fedora, and I hope those techies can track down the problem and fix it.
> 
> I was, however, responding to those who were claiming that some piece of 
> hardware was at fault, rather than FC6. Although I cannot prove that FC6 
> installation caused the monitor to fail, the circumstances are such that 
> any reasonable person would reach that conclusion, even without being 
> able explain the details.

I'm fairly reasonable, but I didn't reach that conclusion. Under no 
circumstances in a perfect binary world should software EVER be able 
destroy hardware. I don't believe it did. I don't believe either that 
ANY operating system should be responsible for checking the safeties on 
video cards and monitors.

If software gives a command to a video card to run in a resolution or 
frequency not supported by the monitor, then I believe ultimately it is 
the monitor which should simply refuse the signal, or communicate back 
to the video card that it is not supported. Or the video card should 
check what the monitor can do and communicate that back to the software. 
Under no circumstance should either the monitor or the video card (but I 
believe it really is the monitor's responsibility) just blindly accept 
the signal and blow itself out.

I believe it was a safety in the monitor that has failed.

I personally believe that is a more reasonable conclusion. Especially 
seeing as far as I know the Anaconda installer really runs pretty basic 
resolutions/frequencies when it installs Linux.

Regards,
Ed.