On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Does HDMI-out on laptops work on Gentoo? >> >> Here with a Dell XPS Laptop M1330 and a Nvidia GeForce 9400M GS, it works >> fine >> with nvidia-drivers just plug it, and all its ok :) > > Thank you. I'm planning on getting a laptop with the Intel GMA > 4500MHD. I thought HDMI had some type of "copy protection" built in > in some way, so I was thinking it might not work with Linux.
You're probably thinking of HDCP which is copy-protection that requires both ends (video card and monitor/TV) support HDCP (=paid Intel for a license). HDMI is one of several connection formats that supports HDCP.
