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capturing text information using a display driver
Posted on October 6th, 2003 | 1 Comments

I am using DrvTextOut to capture the text information. However, whenever I type anything on any editor I first get a DrvBitBlt which gives the co-ordiante of the entire client area of the editor as...

VideoPortInt10 Reading EDID data
Posted on October 6th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Hi, I want to read EDID data using VideoPortInt10 function. unsigned char EdidBuffer; biosArguments.Eax = 0x4f15; biosArguments.Ebx = 0x1; biosArguments.Ecx = 0x0; biosArguments.Edx =...

Inf AddReg Directive
Posted on October 6th, 2003 | 0 Comments

I am trying to install a printer on XP using an inf file, however I have to change the following registry key "PortName"="LPT1:" to a different portname or else the installation of the inf fails...

KeStackAttachProcess
Posted on October 6th, 2003 | 6 Comments

Hi! I have a problem with porting driver(none plug and plug driver) from w2k(nt) to w2k3. We used ntddk when developing w2k product. I am going to porting this product to w2k3 using w2k3...

Prove important pack from Microsoft
Posted on October 6th, 2003 | 0 Comments

FWD: Taste that security package
Posted on October 6th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Update drivers on Windows XP
Posted on October 6th, 2003 | 0 Comments

hi: When I press "Update Driver" in the device manager,it no response to me. What happened? My driver is not pass WHQL and I got a message "not a authentic driver code" from setupapi.log. If I pass...

Use the important pack for Microsoft Windows
Posted on October 6th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Can I use something like Mutex or Spinlock in ISR rountine?
Posted on October 6th, 2003 | 7 Comments

Hi All, Is it possible to use somehting like Mutex or Spinlock in a ISR rountine to lock a buffer/variable? I read DDK, and it said that ExAcquireFastMutex and KeAcquireSpinLock can only run at...

How to disabling a kernel driver from application
Posted on October 5th, 2003 | 3 Comments

Hi I have a WinXP WDM PCI kernel driver. No problem there. When I restart my firmware, and thus reinitialize the PCI interface ( this is done often during development ) I manually need to disable...

Look at this security package from Microsoft
Posted on October 5th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Win2K USB Errors
Posted on October 5th, 2003 | 2 Comments

I am developing software for a custom HID device. I am having some problems with an application that I believe might be related to the driver. I have tested on several Win2K SP4 machines and a...

MiniportReset and connection status (NDIS test)
Posted on October 5th, 2003 | 8 Comments

The MiniportReset test checks that connection state is restored after reset, and gives the driver 500 ms to restore connection ( script : 1c_reset.wsf, line 195 in ndistest 4.3.30). What if this is...

Q: about ZwLoadDriver()
Posted on October 5th, 2003 | 2 Comments

Hello! Can somebody confirm or contradict these three statements: 1) ZwLoadDriver() interface remains unchanged from Win2000 to a latest Win2003 (or to which version as you know?) 2) It's...

free large 1394 address error(2Mbytes)
Posted on October 4th, 2003 | 2 Comments

i'm developing a data collecting card using the 1394 bus interface,and the windows system is win2000 or winXP.i've written a driver according to your sample "1394diag",it can work well in win2000...

2.Every driver?
Posted on October 4th, 2003 | 2 Comments

Thanks for previous help message. But if my driver has not any upper driver and not any lower driver. How I may write PNP and Power dispatch routines? Thanks.

2.Every driver?
Posted on October 4th, 2003 | 0 Comments

Thanks for previous help message. But if my driver has not any upper driver and not any lower driver. How I may write PNP and Power dispatch routines? Thanks.

Every driver?
Posted on October 4th, 2003 | 1 Comments

Hello, may somebody advices me. If driver doesn't provide some hardware devices and provide only some monitoring, must has this driver object PNP & Power dispatch routines? Thanks.

Registry entries for a serial port
Posted on October 4th, 2003 | 4 Comments

Hi gurus I have a virtual port up and running, seems to install and work fine. Problem is, that ex HyperTerminal expects an registry entry HKLM / HARDWARE / DEVICEMAP / SERIALCOMM / COMx How is...

Take a look at these correction patch from the Microsoft Corp.
Posted on October 4th, 2003 | 0 Comments