[ros-kernel] Jason read this, List of Drivers, Check Videoprt.sys Part 2

[Filip Navara]

Hi James!

This problem should be solved now and the VBE miniport driver shouldn't 
be loaded twice anymore (I hope).

Regards,
Filip

James Tabor wrote:

> Hi,
> After commenting out the vbe driver from hivesys.inf and rebuilding,
> taskmgr runs again. I guess you can not have two video drivers loaded
> at the same time. 8^>
> He,
> James
>
>
> Filip Navara wrote:
>
>> Jason Filby wrote:
>>
>>> But should the first miniport be unloaded if it fails?
>>>
>> That should be possible, but currently I can't think about some 
>> *clean* way how achieve this.
>>
>>> Or perhaps only load the first one if the VBE BIOS check succeeds?
>>>  
>>>
>> This is impossible. At these time the drivers are loaded we know 
>> absolutely nothing about which drivers will be really used. For 
>> example: The VBE driver under VMware detects the VBE BIOS, but fails 
>> later when setting the video mode. If we would load only the VBE 
>> driver, now we are lost.
>>
>> - Filip
>