Re: [Thinkpad] Vista RTM on Thinkpad T40

Just as a minor update. I managed to get the T40 working with suspend
and the nicer screen savers. It will not do Glass or anything but it
runs Vista very solidly. I used the XP drivers for the T40 and I have
not had any problems yet. I did have to do about 2 Vista installs prior
to this though because I managed to mess things up rather badly trying
a variety of drivers.

Someone also told me that were drivers for the Radeon 7500 video card in
the beta for Vista but they did not make it into the RTM that I
downloaded from technet.

Andrew wrote:
> 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:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------
> 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.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -------------------------
>
> 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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