[ros-dev] 0.3.12 milestones status

[Bernd Blaauw]

Op 11-10-2010 20:44, Olaf Siejka schreef:
> MSI works well enought with older versions of Windows Installer. It 
> can for example handle WinDbg msi packacge correctly. It has some 
> problems with install packages of the newer version. Since those 
> require installing and running a service, it could be difficult to 
> have them running on ros, but not impossible.

Ah I ment more like the VMware installer (usually .exe or MSI package) 
has never worked, thus your vmwinst.exe

> As for video driver installation, it is quite specific. If dedicated 
> installer doesnt work, you can only change the video driver by having 
> the proper files in specific locations at startup of 2nd stage of ROS 
> install. Anything later is just too late.

That sounds like either modifying the installation CD, or getting a DOS 
bootdisk with driverfiles and using that after phase 1 (partitioning, 
formatting, copying, writing MBR/bootsector, rebooting) but before 
ReactOS installation starts from harddisk, to copy files to proper location.

> By specific, i mean all exe and dll in ReactOS\System32, all sys files 
> in ReactOS\System32\Drivers and inf file in ReactOS\Inf. You can 
> easily decipher the proper file list from the inf file. As for inf, 
> you dont need to hack them, they are being processed quite well by 
> ROS, usually. Having the driver package separated as i describe above, 
> will not only allow you to install video driver on 2nd stage, but also 
> to install driver for any device at a later stages, simply by picking 
> "Automatic" option from New device wizard.

Thanks for the heads-up regarding file location, and .inf processing. 
The 2nd note near bottom of [ 
http://www.reactos.org/wiki/Supported_Hardware/Video_cards ] confused me 
for that.

> Please mind that video driver loading is not working properly atm, 
> see: http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2286 (to mention, 
> this is one of my first bugs and longest one still open).

No idea if that counts like a regressing as VMware video driver used to 
work fine in older VMware software releases combined with older ReactOS 
versions. Never tried real hardware with Nvidia driver setup as that's a 
massive 200MB driver set rather than some .sys/dll/exe/inf files.

Simply copying the svga.sys over vbemp.sys and vgamp.sys wasn't 
succesfull, nice black screen.

Thanks for all the help so far.