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strange: ATI display card has no "DrvEnablePDEV" function?
Posted by lucy on August 24th, 2004


I have searched all the ATI driver .DLL files in my three PCs...

I have used Ultraedit ASCII search to search into these binary files,

I just could not find any "DrvEnablePDEV" functions...

That's strange! MSDN webpage says that this is required for all graphic
cards...

Any ideas?


Posted by Brian Catlin on August 24th, 2004


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Posted by vipin on August 24th, 2004


check the other post.

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Posted by lucy on August 24th, 2004



Thank you guys so much, Brian and Vipin...

Is there any way that I can find this DLL file out by programming, since I
am now just programming on one PC but it needs to be able to work on various
of PCs...

Thank you so much!

-Lucy




Posted by Tim Roberts on August 26th, 2004


"lucy" <losemind@yahoo.com> wrote:
Lucy, you CANNOT arbitrarily call from a mirror driver into another display
driver. The other driver has already been initialized and assign a driver
object. You don't know that, and you don't want to pass YOUR driver object
to the other driver. A mirror driver is the WRONG solution for the problem
you need to solve.

What you need is a display filter driver, which is not a formally supported
concept. You need the operating system to load YOUR driver as the primary
driver, and they YOU load the original driver and filter the results. If
you do a little web searching, you might be able to find some documents
describing how to do this. It isn't easy. It's going to require a reboot
to install, and another to uninstall.
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