Chapter 8
Merry Monitor Mayhem
In This Chapter
Discovering the monitor
Understanding the display adapter
Setting up a PC monitor
Adjusting the resolution
Adding a second monitor
Setting monitor orientation
Contrary to what Hollywood may have led you to believe, text makes no noise when it appears on a computer screen. Text also appears rather quickly, not one letter at a time. If you really want a noisy computer, you need to return to the deafening days of the teletype, which served as the main input-and-output gizmo for the ancient, steam-powered mainframe computers of the 1960s. Things today are much better, and quieter.
The PC’s Graphics System
Your PC’s graphics system is composed of two parts. The pretty part, the one that the hackers don’t see when they’re hunched over the keyboard, is the monitor. It’s what most normal people stare at while they use a computer.
The second ...
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