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

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"pberry2"@cfl.rr.com wrote:
> 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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i would not be supprised.  the DRM in vista is nasty to say the least. 
a few good things though, the video/audio DRMs have already been cracked
under vista, but if the hardware has been modified then it might be a
while before ANY Linux will work with that hardware setup.

Also could spell the end of video hardware that works with Linux.  this
is one of the things I talked about over a year ago when i started
reading up on Vista and its DRM demands on hardware OEMs.