On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Roderick Colenbrander<thunderbir...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Erich Hoover<ehoo...@mines.edu> wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Mike >> Kaplinskiy<mike.kaplins...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I don't know about stubbing drivers, but I remember that >>> autodetection/registry wasn't accepted on the fallout 3 patch. I think >>> AJ would prefer something like >>> http://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/?a=commit;h=f2e2e3e49947490368900ef06a92e1df1bc52820 >>> but for driver dll strings. >>> >>> But take my comments with a grain of salt. I just watch the list most >>> of the time and don't really understand the graphics stuff too well. >>> >>> Mike. >>> >> >> It's been some time since I've seen those patches pass through (it's >> also possible I missed the patch your talking about), but if I >> remember correctly there were a couple different reasons they were >> rejected. It sounded like the issue was that they reported a driver >> that doesn't exist and/or that the registry key manually specified a >> driver. My suggestion is that there's a "try to report the >> manufacturer driver" type registry key and that it, when activated, >> reports a real driver. This real driver then funnels the requests >> back to winex11.drv (with room to add additional non-funneled requests >> later, such as requesting the card's video RAM). >> >> Erich Hoover >> ehoo...@mines.edu >> >> >> > > The only thing I didn't add yet was driver identification as I didn't > have time for it yet but I just plan to add that to a table in wined3d > (the reported driver name depends also on the windows version). In the > end adding such info to the display driver would make sense though but > I don't think it brings us much at this point. > > Roderick >
I forgot to mention the reason why previous registry key options didn't enter Wine. The reason was that we had to have a good default mechanism (e.g. returning nv4_disp.dll for nvidia by default on 2k/xp) before adding override keys. The registry keys can be added when this mechanism is around. Roderick
