Request for comments on patch

Erich Hoover ehoover at mines.edu
Sun Jun 14 15:45:03 CDT 2009


On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Mike
Kaplinskiy<mike.kaplinskiy at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know about stubbing drivers, but I remember that
> autodetection/registry wasn't accepted on the fallout 3 patch. I think
> AJ would prefer something like
> http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=commit;h=f2e2e3e49947490368900ef06a92e1df1bc52820
> but for driver dll strings.
>
> But take my comments with a grain of salt. I just watch the list most
> of the time and don't really understand the graphics stuff too well.
>
> Mike.
>

It's been some time since I've seen those patches pass through (it's
also possible I missed the patch your talking about), but if I
remember correctly there were a couple different reasons they were
rejected.  It sounded like the issue was that they reported a driver
that doesn't exist and/or that the registry key manually specified a
driver.  My suggestion is that there's a "try to report the
manufacturer driver" type registry key and that it, when activated,
reports a real driver.  This real driver then funnels the requests
back to winex11.drv (with room to add additional non-funneled requests
later, such as requesting the card's video RAM).

Erich Hoover
ehoover at mines.edu



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