Re: [Thinkpad] Vista RTM on Thinkpad T40

On Jan 3, 2007, at 13:00, thinkpad-request@stderr.org wrote:
> I installed one of the RC builds on a T40 but had a few different
> problems. One of the primary ones was with the video driver for the
> Radeon Card. I could not get suspend to work and because the adaptor
> was only seen as a VGA card, other things would not work correctly.
>
> Anybody got Vista RTM working on a T40 with suspend working? What
> video
> drivers did you use if so? That's the only thing I found that got me
> with the install of Vista on the T40.

I wonder if it might be a side effect of Vista's digital rights
management?
This site suggests that if your hardware doesn't support Vista's DRM
then it will be downgraded by Vista to prevent you from interfering
with media conglomerate profits.

<http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt>

Here's a short quote:
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Alongside the all-or-nothing approach of disabling output, Vista
requires that
any interface that provides high-quality output degrade the signal
quality
that passes through it if premium content is present. This is done
through a
"constrictor" that downgrades the signal to a much lower-quality one,
then up-
scales it again back to the original spec, but with a significant loss
in
quality. So if you're using an expensive new LCD display fed from a
high-
quality DVI signal on your video card and there's protected content
present,
the picture you're going to see will be, as the spec puts it, "slightly
fuzzy", a bit like a 10-year-old CRT monitor that you picked up for $2
at a
yard sale [Note F]. In fact the specification specifically still
allows for
old VGA analog outputs, but even that's only because disallowing them
would
upset too many existing owners of analog monitors. In the future even
analog
VGA output will probably have to be disabled. The only thing that
seems to be
explicitly allowed is the extremely low-quality TV-out, provided that
Macrovision is applied to it.
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I'm not clever enough to know if this is paranoid raving or a factual
report on the latest MS attempt to control my computer but I'm glad I
don't have to worry about upgrading my 560x to vista......

Andrew in Ann Arbor
technology is the answer, what was the question?

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Received on Tue Jan 9 13:21:22 2007