[Wine] Fwd: Installing Windows Drivers in WINE

[David Gerard]

to list as well

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From: David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>
Date: 22 Apr 2008 13:49
Subject: Re: [Wine] Installing Windows Drivers in WINE
To: Owen Stairs <olstairs at rogers.com>


On 22/04/2008, Owen Stairs <olstairs at rogers.com> wrote:

> I thought I read somewhere that it was actually possible to install Windows
> drivers in WINE.  I'm only asking because I have a Radeon 8500 on my
> sister's Linux box, and the Linux drivers really suck.  I actually can't
> even install the proprietary drivers, they are so out of date.
> Is this possible?


Nope - Wine aims to supply a compatibility layer for applications.

ReactOS has ambitions to support NT binary drivers, but I expect
they're a way off doing so as yet.


- d.