Hi all~
My apologies if this is a redundant question. Perhaps you can point me to the previous discussion since I was having a hard time finding an answer.
I was curious, what's the current status on ReactOS' support for display drivers? I understand that for openGL, it's using Mesa ICD as a software fallback but do vendor provided drivers work on ReactOS? If not, what's the status on it? Is it something that we can expect anytime soon?
I was reading Alex Ionescu's earlier presentation and he mentioned something about NVIDIA drivers having a deep kernel variable dependencies and that made it difficult to get it to work on ReactOS.
thanks a bunch!
cheers,
sung
ReactOS & Display Driver Support like NVIDIA Driver
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Re: ReactOS & Display Driver Support like NVIDIA Driver
Well, NVIDIA drivers (and probably most video drivers) rely on a lot of things being exactly in the right format and in the right place in memory. I heard someone say a few years ago that NVIDIA drivers will need to be patched to get them to work. Don't know if this is actually doable though..
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Re: ReactOS & Display Driver Support like NVIDIA Driver
"NVidia video drivers hack deep into kernel variables, so they need binary patching." by Alex Ionescu from "The Reactos Project
- An Open Source OS Platform for Learning" a couple of years ago.
- An Open Source OS Platform for Learning" a couple of years ago.
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Re: ReactOS & Display Driver Support like NVIDIA Driver
What about ATI?
Also, would the Omega ATI/Nvidia drivers make any difference from the official ones?
Also, would the Omega ATI/Nvidia drivers make any difference from the official ones?
Re: ReactOS & Display Driver Support like NVIDIA Driver
No, since Omegas differ by tweaking settings, not the driver itself.
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Re: ReactOS & Display Driver Support like NVIDIA Driver
Once upon a time...
"Some ReactOS Registry Files, e.g. for display drivers. Not needed anymore because resolution can now be set by right-click on desktop->properties. Also, nvidia driver can be installed through plug and play system. There's no need for this files here anymore."
From here:
That was so many hacks ago... (2005)
"Some ReactOS Registry Files, e.g. for display drivers. Not needed anymore because resolution can now be set by right-click on desktop->properties. Also, nvidia driver can be installed through plug and play system. There's no need for this files here anymore."
From here:
That was so many hacks ago... (2005)
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