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> Unfortunately, one day last week I had a DVD from Netflix that my > cheap Apex DVD player wouldn't read, even after I did the windex > thing, so I decided to try playing it in the Pavilion DVD drive. > Neither operating system did this out of the box -- Linux said I > needed more codecs and Windows said I needed a better video driver. > So I gave them both what they said they wanted. At this point, > Windows looked like it thought it was playing the DVD, but I couldn't > hear the sound. Linux had problems with Totem and Mplayer, but VLC > would play the DVD pretty well, even though I still missed a bit of a > couple of tracks, and I couldn't figure out how to do the fast forward > or reverse. > > The worst thing is that the next time I tried to boot Windows, it went > to 800x600 graphics, and I can't figure out how to tell it to do > 1080p. I have upgraded the video driver (the one I gave it first was > the one that came in the box with the card; now there's one it found > on the internet), but it still won't do 1080p, or play sound. Linux, > and the HP splash screen, and the boot menu, are all using 1080p, and > Linux is playing sound fine, so I don't see how it can be the > connections.
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