Re: [ros-kernel] Can't run winhello.exe

[Eric K. <ek...@rz...>]

"Jason Filby" <jas...@ya...> wrote:

> >Sorry, that was a typo. I meant vgamp.sys. Vidport.sys should
> >handle the create requests and retrieve the process id or handle
> from
> >csrss and do the initialization for int10 calls.
>
> But doesn't it already do this?
It does, but now vidport.sys is loaded when vgamp.sys is loaded. Both are
system-start drivers. Csrss does not run at that time, so opening the csrss
process by its id will fail! :-/

> >Btw, I guess it is useful to rename vidport.sys to videoprt.sys
> >since other video drivers will rely on the name of the port driver.
>
> I thought other drivers would look for the device name in the object
> manager?
Vidport.sys does not appear in the object managers name space. It is now
automatcially loaded by ntoskrnl when vgamp.sys is relocated and no loaded
'vidport.sys' module/driver can be found. This is very much like the
automatic loading of dlls. Btw, the same will apply to scsiport.sys and
class2.sys, or better 'all port drivers'.

Eric