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Does BDA DVB-T minidriver have better performance than non-BDA one?
Posted on June 29th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Hi all, I've done some research about the BDA architecture. My purpose is to develope a DVB-T BDA driver. As I known, Microsoft constructs BDA architecture to optimize the performance. But I wonder...

Watermark in Postscript Driver
Posted on June 29th, 2005 | 2 Comments

Hi! I want to put watermark feature in Postcript driver using plug-ins. What I have done is writing the watermark text on Printer DC at Document event end page. This way it draws text but only...

Kernal or application thread - Help
Posted on June 29th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Hi Guys I have a windows application and device driver using a piece of data acquisition hardware. When the data has been acquired I use the device driver to read back the data. Its read back byte...

Ke386CallBios()
Posted on June 28th, 2005 | 3 Comments

I've got a situation where I'm being told to make an Int15 bios call from a driver. I know it's no longer supported, highly discouraged etc, but I'm still being pushed into it. Based on some...

Use GetPrinterData to GetPrinterDataFromPort to get printer status
Posted on June 28th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Trying to write a language monitor for a printer to retrieve printer status, but having some trouble connecting the dots. There does not seem to be much info on this subject. Through reading other...

Bluetooth programming compilation problems
Posted on June 28th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Hi all, I am trying to develop an application which try to discover different devices present and the services exposed by them over bluetooth. I am using WSALookupServiceBegin(),...

Creating Browser Info in Server 2003.SP1 DDK
Posted on June 28th, 2005 | 3 Comments

In my sources file, I have the following: BROWSER_INFO=1 BROWSERFILE=$(TARGETNAME).bsc -n This works great when I build using the Server 2003 DDK. However, it doesn't generate a browser file if I...

Display Mirror Driver disables DirectDraw Overlays, DVD playback
Posted on June 28th, 2005 | 19 Comments

Hi, I'm having the same problem that was referenced about a year ago in...

How to make sure a Service starts BEFORE a user logs on?
Posted on June 28th, 2005 | 9 Comments

Hi: I have a regular Windows Service program (not a kernel driver) which must start BEFORE a user logs into his machine (XP or W2K). It works most of the time, but sometimes, I noticed that it...

Win98 calls to lower driver from upper driver
Posted on June 28th, 2005 | 0 Comments

We have developed a Windows 98 upper and lower driver to perform read and write operations to the disk. How do we make these both drivers communicate with each other. Thanks in advance!!

USB Communication
Posted on June 28th, 2005 | 8 Comments

I need to be able to talk to a device that is sending USB data. I also need to listen. What is the preferred method of doing so? Do I need to create a device driver or should I just use something...

Retrive USB mouse Device Attributes
Posted on June 28th, 2005 | 2 Comments

This is a continuation of a previous post (for some reason my Outlook Express no longer shows old posts). My objective is to query HID device attributes (VID/PID/VersionNumber) of the USB mouse from...

NdisWriteEventLogEntry and Strings
Posted on June 27th, 2005 | 3 Comments

I am trying to use NdisWriteEventLogEntry to write to event log from my protocol driver. I have created message file and linked with my driver. Messages appear correctly in Event Viewer until I try...

Windows hardware and driver central
Posted on June 27th, 2005 | 2 Comments

I can not find a link to the WHDC on msdn.microsoft.com or the site map on microsoft.com. You almost have to the know the exact link http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/default.mspx to get to it. Does...

remote boot Windows XP Embedded, crash dump
Posted on June 27th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Hi, When using "remote boot Windows XP Embedded" (sdi file), crash dump files can not be created because when WIDOWS re-boots from SDI image , it can not determine if the system had a crash since it...

Weird problem with WDM streaming driver installation
Posted on June 27th, 2005 | 1 Comments

I have 2 WDM video capture streaming drivers that I need. The two co-exist perfectly when they are installed together and work perfectly alright using PVR applications and/or graphedit,...

Overwriting Graphics-Output
Posted on June 27th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Hi guys! Could you please help me to overwrite parts of every frame thats been drawn to the screen in W2k / XP. Dont has to care about GDI / DX / OpenGL. Just some way thats able to finally draw to...

PCMCIA card with 3.3 V only
Posted on June 27th, 2005 | 2 Comments

Hello, I have a PCMCIA card that only supports 3.3 V which works correctly under Windows 2000 and Xp but does not work under Windows 98SE. My driver entry function is called but not my...

help debugging KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED
Posted on June 27th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Hi I hooked CreateFile (i know hooking is bad..) and for some reason, the following line causes a BSOD with BUGCHECK: 1e KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED wcslen(ObjectAttributes->ObjectName->Buffer) >...

DDK newbie
Posted on June 27th, 2005 | 12 Comments

Hi Experts, I'm new to driver building and need help to get started with 1394 drivers. I have the latest DDK packages from the MSDN disk (june 2005) and i also have the 1394 sample up and...