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:
> Enable Inbv + Disable Strings
> re-enable strings if SOS is on
> Create smss
> Finalize boot logo
> Set progressbar to 100%
> Enable display strings
> 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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