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USB disconnect and hang when resuming from standby
Posted on September 13th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Hello We're building a USB composite device. We've 2 versions of the hardware: (1) a normal USB device (2) a CardBus card with a NEC720101 (cfg'd as OHCI-only) and the USB device directly connected...

Video Class
Posted on September 13th, 2005 | 2 Comments

Hi, I am fairly new to Device Drivers and not sure where to start. We have an imaging board connected to a FX2 board that streams vidoe and we can capture images. The CYUSB driver shipped with...

Can i8042prt.sys crashes be avoided?
Posted on September 13th, 2005 | 3 Comments

When i8042prt.sys writes a log event saying that the hardware has timed out, can't the driver also try to reset the hardware? And maybe try once per minute or once per 5 minutes to see if maybe the...

IoReportResourceForDetection
Posted on September 13th, 2005 | 1 Comments

I have a non-pnp driver that among other thinks write/read memory 0x278 using macro WRITE_PORT_XXX. I was advised that these resources should be assigned by pnp manager. Could i use...

How to solve the error: operand size conflict
Posted on September 13th, 2005 | 6 Comments

Hi all I am the new to assembly. I need to handle the error of the following code. Does anyone have an idea how to slove the eorror of operand size conflict? _asm{ push ds push es push si

GetVolumeNameForVolumeMountPoint
Posted on September 13th, 2005 | 5 Comments

I am getting a compile error c2065. I have included the define for _WIN32_WINNT 0x0501 I have even tried including winbase.h but still get the error. What else could be the problem?

DDK 3790 and WDK 5112 difference for Windows 2K/XP
Posted on September 12th, 2005 | 7 Comments

1) My driver code compiles without error in DDK 3790 version of DDK. I got new version of WDK 5112. Now I cannot compile the code for Windows 2000 and windows XP environment of WDK 5112. Can someone...

Steps for an application to query a driver's version
Posted on September 12th, 2005 | 7 Comments

Hi: I'm new to driver development, just wonder what should be the steps to implement this: On WinXP, a Windows application needs to query the version of a running driver (a network device driver)....

Mirror Driver and DirectX
Posted on September 12th, 2005 | 0 Comments

I'm trying to get my Display Mirror driver to run without disabling DirectX. Similar to problems others have...

TDI Client and the transports (v4 and v6) raw devices
Posted on September 12th, 2005 | 0 Comments

When using \device\RawIp6\ are there any special extended attributes to specify to be able to open it with protocol 4 (v4 in v6) or 6 (v6 in v6)? Whenever I try protocol 4 or 41, it fails with...

Storage Driver and Partition support
Posted on September 12th, 2005 | 0 Comments

I have a bus driver, and I am trying to put on top a storage disk driver, based on the code for storage\class in the WINDDK (3790.1890) I can succesfully create the FDO device for the storage disk...

Help with IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THROUGH_DIRECT
Posted on September 12th, 2005 | 2 Comments

I'm trying to use IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THROUGH_DIRECT, but I don't understand how SCSI_PASS_THROUGH_DIRECT works. In SCSI_PASS_THROUGH_DIRECT, there is a PVOID DataBuffer for the data transfer, but for...

WM_SETTINGCHANGE and Explorer
Posted on September 12th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Hello all, Those of you who read this list on a regular basis may have come across and remembered my previous posts where I was trying to figure out how to do proper drive letter assignments via the...

high speed usb
Posted on September 12th, 2005 | 1 Comments

where can i get driver for the high speed usb nad how do i activate it??? can you help?

DefineDosDevice() for kernel-space wanted
Posted on September 12th, 2005 | 5 Comments

Hello all, I'm currently writing a disk driver. I have successfully created a mount point on, say, drive H:, using the Mount Manager. Now I need to notify Explorer somehow so it "sees" the newly...

How to use Symbolic Link Name of IoRegisterDeviceInterface() in the Applications
Posted on September 12th, 2005 | 2 Comments

Hi, I written a win2k plug n play driver for pcmcia 16 bit PC card and this driver successfully recognized the card. In driver, in IoCreateDevice funtion I given Device name as NULL and Device type...

Driver Installation
Posted on September 12th, 2005 | 1 Comments

All right, got to compile the skeleton of a driver, now how does one tell the operating system to load the image and call DriverEntry? Before someone asks, let me state some facts: - The 'device'...

Need help on mirror driver enhancement.
Posted on September 12th, 2005 | 0 Comments

My intension here is to make GDI render on to my mirror surface. The approach is like this: I Modified the Mirror sample driver to function very similar to a frame buffer display driver. I mean i...

Why doesn't the drvier call DrvTextOut?
Posted on September 12th, 2005 | 4 Comments

Hi, I am tracking msplot sample in the DDK. I found out the DrvTextOut have never been called by the driver.Then I modified the DEVINFO's flGraphicsCaps and GDIINFO's flTextCaps use follow...

Link error using KsDispatchSpecificProperty
Posted on September 12th, 2005 | 2 Comments

How can I use the KsDispatchSpecificProperty: when I use this function, I got link error: mydriver.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__KsDispatchSpecificProperty@8 referenced in...