Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [rharabien] 52244: [NTOSKRNL] - Disable displaying string by bootvid after successful kernel phase 1 initialization, so there won't be graphical glitches at the top of screen if system has screen d...

[Rafał H]

You are right. I forgot about boot applications.
Where disabling display string should be then? Is SmLoadSubsystems good  
place for it?

Best regards,
Rafał Harabień

>   How do you expect to see autochk's boot strings if
> you disabled  
>  DisplayString before launching smss?
>
>  The correct order is this:
>
>  1) Enable Inbv + Disable Strings
>  2) re-enable strings if SOS is on
>  3) Create smss
>  4) Finalize boot logo
>  5) Set progressbar to 100%
>  6) Enable display strings
>  7) Wait 5 seconds for smss
>
>  Also all those DPRINT1s should be KeBugChecks with things like  
>  SESSIONX_INITIALIZATION_FAILED, IOX_INITIALIZATION_FAILED, etc....
>
>  --
>  Best regards,
>  Alex Ionescu
>
>  On 2011-06-15, at 9:12 AM, Rafał H wrote:
>
> > >   Or
> > > another way of putting this...
> > >
> > >  ""Fix" 100% correct reverse engineered NT code and break it so that it  
> > >  matches ReactOS's broken Video Driver Framework behaviour, instead of  
> > >  fixing the latter".
> > >
> > >  Never gets old~
> > >
> > >  --
> > >  Best regards,
> > >  Alex Ionescu
> > >  
> >  What's wrong? How you want to display strings by bootvid driver which  
> >  uses VGA, when another 3rd party driver can be loaded? It doesn't make  
> >  sense.
> >  I don't reverse NT kernel but disabling bootvid functionality when we  
> >  switch to normal graphics mode make sense for me...
> >
> >  Best regards,
> >  Rafal Harabien
> >
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