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

[Damien McKenna]

On 1/30/07 3:31 PM, "pberry2"@cfl.rr.com wrote:
> 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!

The Vista DRM has nothing to do with being able to play (or not) a Blu-Ray
or HD-DVD on another OS.  To be able to play those video discs on a Linux
machine you'll need a player, and due to the DRM & co-mingled code you most
likely won't be able to run Windows Media Player through Wine, it'll
probably take a native player.

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

Nope, that's a different issue.

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