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HCT 12.1 Pointing and Drawing Devices, DirectInput Mouse test failure
Posted on February 24th, 2005 | 5 Comments

Hi All The situation: HCT 12.1, Pointing and Drawing Devices, DirectInput Mouse

global variable
Posted on February 24th, 2005 | 2 Comments

I use global variable to store some pointer data. Will it paged out? Can I always assume it's in memory when I access it in DISPATCH_LEVEL? thanks.

BDA -S Problem
Posted on February 24th, 2005 | 3 Comments

Hi, i'm not sure but does somebody know why it seems to be impossible to tune a transponder without using the evil sloow tuningspace and TIF system? I tried to deal with IBDA_DeviceControl,...

question from sfilter
Posted on February 24th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Hi all, Suppose I have two file system filters(mostly copied from sfilter): A and B. A calls IoRegisterFsRegistrationChange before B does. As a result, when a file system driver C calls...

USB C++
Posted on February 24th, 2005 | 8 Comments

Can anybody help me to reach USB port from C++. (For evample to set/read a pin). Any suggestion are wellcome.

kbfiltr hang the mouse
Posted on February 24th, 2005 | 7 Comments

When I install modified-kbfiltr as class lowerfiltr, and I create another device object for directly calling. But some times when I start the computer, when the XP system gets in it's desktop, both...

Generic / Text Only Printer Driver (tty)
Posted on February 24th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Hi, i'm trying to create a mechanism to print to plain-text-only-files without user intervention. I did this using the Generic Printer Driver, printing to a Redirection Port, redirecting to a...

Null driver WHQL signing
Posted on February 24th, 2005 | 2 Comments

Is it possible to obtain WHQL certification for a null driver? I have created an “inf” file modeled after the form specified in the following MSDN...

1394 isochronous transfer filtering
Posted on February 24th, 2005 | 1 Comments

How do you write a filter driver that can intercept the firewire isochronous data transfers? Since these transfers do not occur within IRP's, standard filter driver practices do not apply. Are there...

when was driver installed - date and time
Posted on February 24th, 2005 | 7 Comments

I am curious to know if there is way to know when the driver was first installed - time and date. I have the GUID of the driver, hardware ID and even PC on which it is installed. I know the INF file...

DDK: What target should I use to build?
Posted on February 24th, 2005 | 8 Comments

Hi I've ordered the "new" DDK for W2k3. I installed it on a W2k system and have a target PC with W2k checked build to debug (if I ever get it working to debug...). Obviously I'd like to have a...

Sending IDENTIFY DEVICE to USB drive
Posted on February 24th, 2005 | 1 Comments

Hello, I'm trying to send a IDENTIFY DEVICE (0xEC) command to a hard drive on a USB bus. The drive is a Toshiba, and according to it's documentation it supports that command. The OSes are Windows XP...

OOB-NDIS
Posted on February 24th, 2005 | 4 Comments

Hi All, I am doing tunneling/detunneling in my NDIS driver. In mpsend ,i will create an outer IP buffer in which i will place the ip data i received from the application as inner IP and send it to...

DDK W2k3 bug? WNET and WXP build ok, W2k doesn't work
Posted on February 24th, 2005 | 2 Comments

Hi I found out that only W2k3 (WNET) and WXP builds work for the samples delivered. W2k does only work for executables and some of the libraries. What could be wrong? See the build output...

writing printer minidriver using IPrintOemUni::Compression
Posted on February 24th, 2005 | 0 Comments

Hello, Anyone asking me about writing a simple printer driver for win2000 and greather. The printer langage is very simple : this is a black and white printer, which can receive only (after header)...

NdisAllocateBuffer semantics
Posted on February 24th, 2005 | 4 Comments

I have a doubt surrounding usage of NdisAllocateBufferPool , NdisAllocateBuffer and NdisFreeBuffer. MSDN documentation did not answer my question. What are the general semantics of using memory...

64-bit Build Environment in 32-bit XP machine
Posted on February 24th, 2005 | 3 Comments

I am currently porting my 32-bit code to 64-bit and wanted to have a build environment in my 32-bit XP machine. I just installed the latest 2003 DDK. 1. Shall I use the Open Build...

USB 1.1 device installs as "Unknown Device"
Posted on February 24th, 2005 | 3 Comments

i am using Windows 2000 SP4 with USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller.4 usb handsets are connected to a USB2.0 BELKIN hub to the PC. Using a custom apllication i am sending reset Command to Handsets...

NT4 printer driver crashs Win XP
Posted on February 24th, 2005 | 2 Comments

Hi, I developed a printer driver with the NT4 DDK which was running fine under NT4, W2K and XP. The driver is a rasdd based printer driver and I only wrote a portmonitor to communicate with the...

Unidrv mini driver installation - custom registry entries
Posted on February 24th, 2005 | 2 Comments

Hi all I am in the process of developing a minidriver based on the Unidrv model. I used the oemuni and oemui samples. Now, my driver consists of the following components. Rendering plugin...