[Leaplist] "Vista" laptops boot PCLinuxOS- beta but, NOT -p93!

"pberry2" at cfl.rr.com "pberry2" at cfl.rr.com
Tue Jan 30 15:31:36 EST 2007


Checked out the HP and the GATEWAY laptops at Costco.

The only laptop that would boot the pclinuxos-p93 was the XP loaded 
Gateway remaining on the shelf.

All the other Laptops were loaded with Vista, and were just set out this 
morning.  All failed video and dropped to a shell in p93.

All ran the PCLinuxOS-LiveCD beta. 

I think I was reading about the VISTA DRM requirements being imposed 
upon video chip makers so Blu-ray and HD-DVD won't play, on those 
computers, except when run in a Microsoft environment!

I wonder if it is DRM that prevents the loading of video drivers in 
PCLinuxos-p93. 

Any comments?
 



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