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by **ENNO** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 14:40

Heloo everyone,had a little search and couldnt find anything on this...i have just installed my new sabayon(very happy with it)and i was wondering since this distro is HD Ready has anyone has come across a way to get a HD DVD drive or blu ray drive working on sabayon?

by **wolfden** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 21:12

moved to hardware

by **R3MF** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 12:54

hmmm, i'd be interested in the answer to this question too...........?

by **BlueJayofEvil** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 15:45

Me too as I may be getting a new laptop soon and it will have an HD-DVD drive.

by **ScottishDuckHunter** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 15:50

I believe it may be illegal to provide the drivers.

If you use ATi/Nvidia card it MUST also support HD. Download the required software to do so from here:

http://www.nvidia.co.uk/page/drivers.html
http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

by **thedevilsjester** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 1:27

No point in working hard to support HD-DVD, it doesnt have much of a life left, never did really. As for BluRay, support is in the kernel already AFAIK, because my PS3 with Linux on it, can access a BluRay on the drive no problem.

As for supporting the actual video format, its illegal to do so with DVD, so I assume its illegal to do so with HD-DVD and BluRay also.

Sony is a huge Linux supporter, there are Linux Cell SDKs, Linux install options for PS3, and the PS3 runs on Linux and OpenGL, even the PS2 had an official Linux for it, so I dont see it too far off for them to release official software to play BluRay on Linux PCs.

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