What do you need to install a monitor for?
Funny thing. When I bought my wife her first LCD screen, it came with an install disk. Sure enough, when the "driver" for that particular monitor was installed in Windows, it had all the right settings and the correct available screen sizes, etc.
So "install a monitor", although a surprise to me too, did work and work very well. Since then any time I change external devices I make sure to see if the manufacturer has a "driver" for it.
Ah! Now I remember, it was a Proview monitor, and they still seem to provide the drivers even though their web site hasn't been updated since 2007. Uh-oh.
Linux didn't like my ATI graphics. It looked like it was installed properly but it ran at like 50% or less performance than Windows.
For some reason, the ATI graphics drivers being released for Linux are dragging seriously behind the Windows drivers. The only people who know why are ATI, I'm in the same boat right now myself. Did you ask them?
When GPL v4 comes out proclaiming the end of all property rights -- wham -- the World-Wide Communist Revolution will be triggered!
Funny. You do realize that the GPL strengthens property rights, by declaring that derivative works must acknowledge the upstream source? I'm surprised you'd bring that up, what with your stated preference for the BSD and other efforts which allow much greater latitude for derivative works without attribution or acknowledgement. Yet another page from the Microsoft astroturf handbook, obviously.