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In article <530m99$rah@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>, navindra@cs.mcgill.ca wrote:

> ->      Well now computers turn your your monitor on and off 
> ->automatically when you power up and powering down.
>         No they don't. It's probably because you plugged your monitor
> into your computer's "power supply" and the socket is activated when
> you turn the computer on. Unfortunately my monitor's plug doesn't fit
> into my computer's socket.

I really didn't want to get involved in this conversation, but I feel I
must make a subtle point. In some operating systems where hardware and
software were conceived as one logical part, the computer is actually able
to power the monitor as well as probe it to find out exactly what kind of
monitor it is, including gathering all the sync rates, etc. Moreover, when
multiple monitors are present, the video cards in the above machine can
detect the presence of other monitors, and make decisions about the way
things should be represented in terms of virtual screens. These same
systems can shut a monitor down first and then turn themselves off.

-- 
Eric Bourque

Centre for Intelligent Machines
McGill University
ericb@cim.mcgill.ca