Tricking program into seeing actual gfx driver not WINE's

[Martijn Berger]

>* Hello All,
*>*
*>* We have run into an interesting problem while trying to get the latest
*>* version of Stanford's Folding at Home GPU client to work in Linux via WINE.
*>* The programs says it does not detect a compatible GPU. Even when the user
*>* has installed the correct Nvidia drivers (with CUDA support)  and has a
*>* compatible GPU. The problem I believe lies in  the fact that the program is
*>* not told that there is a Nvidia 8800 installed, instead by the nature of
*>* WINE it see that  "WINE" is the graphics card, as WINE first translate the
*>* direct3d calls into opengl calls that are then passed on to the GPU. So the
*>* question is, is it possible to trick programs into believing they are
*>* running on the right hardware? (As in fact they are).
*>*
*>* I remember a while ago the steam system spec survey was used to see how many
*>* people run steam via WINE. This was done by noting the graphics driver
*>* installed and how the wine one appeared when running WINE. Well this is fine
*>* but what we need is a way to make the program to see that it is actually
*>* running on Nvidia hardware. Because if the client would just start then the
*>* direct3d calls can be translated into opengl calls and the Nvidia linux
*>* drivers can then handle them and run it all fine and dandy.
*>*
*>* Here is the post, with error message about wrong graphics card detected,
*>* http://www.ocforums.com/showpost.php?p=5698997&postcount=19 .
*

I think you would have to create wrapper dll's that pass the function calls
along to libcudart.so.2.0

The following libraries are in the CUDA download for linux.
libcublas.so.2.0
libcublasemu.so.2.0
libcudart.so.2.0
libcufft.so.2.0
libcufftemu.so.2.0

I am unsure if you would need to modify more but I am pretty sure that
running the windows veersions of those dlls directly o wine is nto what you
want.
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