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Zombiedeth
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Installing Nvidia drivers

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So with the new release of ReactOS i figured it was a good time to test video drivers again. it seems things have progressed a bit farther.
I'm testing a GeForce 6600 using the following drivers:

http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/9 ... h_whql.exe

When installing the drivers i do run into a snag it keeps displaying a dialog box about NVDISP.NVU during the copy process but doesn't matter how many times i hit it keeps coming back. and drivers are not installed

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if i rename this file so it can't be found the process does complete

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I get this error dialog about 3 times before it's done i have tested this in Windows XP with the same drivers and the drivers install and seem to work properly when renaming NVDISP.NVU. so i think this is a valid workaround.

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All seems ok till i reboot ReactOS hangs after the driver is loaded if i select screen at boot i get the following:

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I have had the same thing (ERROR_SUCCESS) with GForce3 drivers, when I have tried to install the network driver. The way I got around it was, to go to the Task Manager and kill the process, but not the setup.exe, then the ReactOS hardware wizard opened and I installed the driver that way.
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Hello,

Please create a new bugreport in JIRA, since it's easier for developers to keep track of them.

Btw looking at the code, it seems that the current implementation of VideoPortGetProcAddress is quite broken and should rely on export table parsing I guess (instead of manually track exported functions)
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I wish i could file a JIRA report but my login does not work there.
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Zombiedeth wrote:I wish i could file a JIRA report but my login does not work there.
It needs up to 24 hrs after registration to sync the database
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My account was created in 2014 so it should have synced by now but guess not. :?
Is there a admin i can contact to fix my login?
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@ Zombiedeth: can you please retest with this build of videoprt.sys: http://rghost.net/7YKnXHHXS which comes from ReactOS build r70770 ? (The link is valid for 30 days).
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That cleared up some of the errors.

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Ok thanks! I've looked at our code in the meantime, and the assertion FALSE that you encounters is due to (one of the numerous unimplemented) memory mapping methods.
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Re: Installing Nvidia drivers

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Zombiedeth, here http://rghost.net/6BTgbVwGQ is a local build of ntoskrnl.exe (to be placed in system32) with an experimental patch for the assertion. Could you have a look at it please?
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Re: Installing Nvidia drivers

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Sure happy to btw i tried the videoprt.sys from windows xp don't know if it may give some useful info.

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Zombiedeth, thank you for your testing :) The ntoskrnl patch was committed in revision 70774 by Pierre Schweitzer (I think it's worth mentioning in the Epic Win! thread).
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Glad i could help ReactOS is an amazing project.
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Re: Installing Nvidia drivers

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CORE-10065 is updated with 93.71 driver testing report.
Maybe you will be interested in this.
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