Op 11-10-2010 20:44, Olaf Siejka schreef:
MSI works well enought with older versions of Windows Installer. It can for example handle WinDbg msi packacge correctly. It has some problems with install packages of the newer version. Since those require installing and running a service, it could be difficult to have them running on ros, but not impossible.
Ah I ment more like the VMware installer (usually .exe or MSI package) has never worked, thus your vmwinst.exe
As for video driver installation, it is quite specific. If dedicated installer doesnt work, you can only change the video driver by having the proper files in specific locations at startup of 2nd stage of ROS install. Anything later is just too late.
That sounds like either modifying the installation CD, or getting a DOS bootdisk with driverfiles and using that after phase 1 (partitioning, formatting, copying, writing MBR/bootsector, rebooting) but before ReactOS installation starts from harddisk, to copy files to proper location.
By specific, i mean all exe and dll in ReactOS\System32, all sys files in ReactOS\System32\Drivers and inf file in ReactOS\Inf. You can easily decipher the proper file list from the inf file. As for inf, you dont need to hack them, they are being processed quite well by ROS, usually. Having the driver package separated as i describe above, will not only allow you to install video driver on 2nd stage, but also to install driver for any device at a later stages, simply by picking "Automatic" option from New device wizard.
Thanks for the heads-up regarding file location, and .inf processing. The 2nd note near bottom of [ http://www.reactos.org/wiki/Supported_Hardware/Video_cards ] confused me for that.
Please mind that video driver loading is not working properly atm, see: http://www.reactos.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2286 (to mention, this is one of my first bugs and longest one still open).
No idea if that counts like a regressing as VMware video driver used to work fine in older VMware software releases combined with older ReactOS versions. Never tried real hardware with Nvidia driver setup as that's a massive 200MB driver set rather than some .sys/dll/exe/inf files.
Simply copying the svga.sys over vbemp.sys and vgamp.sys wasn't succesfull, nice black screen.
Thanks for all the help so far.