Ros-general November 2003

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0.1.5 Release
by nick_journals 13 Nov '03

13 Nov '03

Hi Guys, I'm sad to say but the 0.1.5 final will have to be undone. For some reason the files at sourceforge are all corrupt except the source, I tried a second time but it still doesn't work. I will hide the 0.1.5 final and revert to the RC. Tomorrow I will try to upload again, maybe something's wrong with my connection. I don't have a clue, but the files are truncated badly. Greets, Nick

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ReactOS 0.1.5 final
by nick_journals 13 Nov '03

13 Nov '03

Has been released... You can download it here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/reactos/ Have fun! ReactOS Launch

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Website layout / Bugzilla
by Andrew "Silver Blade" Greenwood 11 Nov '03

11 Nov '03

Just been in the #reactos channel and asked if there were any interesting small tasks for me to work on, and was told to go to Bugzilla on the site. I had difficulty finding it, so I asked and was told the link to the Bugzilla page. I was then told I needed to log in to see issues, so I clicked to register a new account. I was then told to go to the main page and to create an account from there. However, I can't see anywhere on the page that says "register" or "create account" or anything like that. Instead, it appears I have to click on Login on the main page (incidentally I never actually noticed this link) and then register from there. It seems a bit awkward to me. Surely it'd make more sense to have a link to registration and/or logging in right on on the main page? So that it sticks out a bit more. Just a suggestion. Apart from that I think the site's great!

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Re: [umlwin32-dev] Linux.exe binary
by Steven Edwards 11 Nov '03

11 Nov '03

Hello Okajima, I understand even governments have budget limits but could you see about getting ReactOS involved in Virtual Linux for Windows? Our system clones the whole Windows NT/2k kernel enviroment. One of the goal of VLW is to be free of cygwin at some point right? Maybe developing with ReactOS will help with this. Thanks Steven --- "Digital Infra, Inc." <okajima(a)digitalinfra.co.jp> wrote: > ------------------------------------------------------------ > /* > Virtual Linux for Windows. > Sponsored by Japanese Govt. Software development dept. > Exective producer: xxx yyy ( Chairman of the dept.) > Senior producer : aaa bbb ( vice president of the dept.) > ( and many lines of name.) > dont miss names of any "bosses". > otherwise you make them displeasure. > and make it difficult to get next budget. > Programmer: > Chandan Kudige > Dan Aloni > Okajima, Jun (Digital Infra, Inc.) > Copyright(C) 2004 Japanese Govt.(<-this line is necessary.) > Licensed under GPL. > */ > ----------------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree

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CVS question !
by Ciobanu Alexander 11 Nov '03

11 Nov '03

I am unable to use cvs anymore. I stand over an firewall that filter the packets not on port 80. Is there a way to use proxy or somehow ??? If it is not possible is there a possibility to make source snapshots of rectos like every 3 days an place it on site ? Else, could anyone pack the cvs for this date and place it somwhere so i could download the latest sources ?

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Re: copy protection - was: Re: Is it time for playing games on WINE?
by Steven Edwards 11 Nov '03

11 Nov '03

Hello Jan! --- Jan Kratochvil <lace(a)jankratochvil.net> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 20:19:45 +0100, Rapha�l Junqueira wrote: > ... > > > BTW, I have got as far with loading secdrv.sys as crashing on > unimplemented > > > IoCreateDevice. I believe the Io* functions will be the biggest > problems. > > It is no problem loading it and initializing it by Captive NTFS for > GNU/Linux: > http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ > > ./captive-cmdline --load-module=/tmp/ntoskrnl.exe > --filesystem=/tmp/secdrv.sys --debug-messages /dev/null > > (some trivia extensions done before a moment are currently only in > CVS: > > http://cvs.jankratochvil.net/viewcvs/*checkout*/captive/README?rev=HEAD > section 'CVS Bleeding Edge' > ) > > 'secdrv.sys' creates devices: > "\Device\AscKmd" (symlinked to "\DosDevices\AscKmd") > "\Device\Secdrv" (symlinked to "\DosDevices\Secdrv") > > It returns STATUS_SUCCESS afterwards. The log can be seen at > http://www.jankratochvil.net/priv/secdrv/secdrv-init-onlysecdrv.log > > I used secdrv.sys > http://www.jankratochvil.net/priv/secdrv/secdrv.sys > md5: bb6fbebebbd14429021f2851a60d8546 > > downloaded by Google from > http://www.kids-station.com/game/Patrician2/secdrv.sys > > Further run fails for Captive as 'secdrv.sys' is somehow broken > driver as it > does not provide any way to mount a filesystem. :-? > > Currently the example above requires 'ntoskrnl.exe' of NT-5.1 (XP). > Tried Service Pack 1 Free Build and Service Pack 1 Checked Build. > It would not be needed for such simple driver as 'secdrv.sys' but > Captive > currently requires it for its 'ntfs.sys' emulation, reasons below: > > http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/doc/Details.html.pl#emulmeth_fs > > > The next step is to combine Captive with Wine to be able to run the > W32 > userland application with 'secdrv.sys'. Captive ported only the W32 > kernel part > of ReactOS to the GNU/Linux environment, no W32 userland code is > present there. Hmm. We really shouldnt need to make much changes to WINE to use Captive I would think. Once Captive+SevDrv and WINE are running you should have full access to the CDROM drive. > > Well, i don't think implementing simple (stupid?) Io* functions > will be > > diffcult. > > (A)Synchronous/(Non)Alertable IRPs (I/O Request Packet) can be tricky > although > it is generally solved by ReactOS/Captive and it is questionable how > much it is > perused by 'secdrv.sys' IRP handling code. We are still having trouble loading SecDrv.sys on native ROS. > > For me, the problem is what secdrv want to do with this functions > (maybe a > > voodoo test for safely check if the subsystem have a correct > behavior): > ... > > - - RtlUnwind > > This is a part of undocumented SEH (Structured Exception Handling) > implemented > by ReactOS while fixed by Captive and partially combined with native > 'ntoskrnl.exe'. I still have some suspections on the correctness of > the current > implementation but it works fine for 'ntfs.sys'. We have a new SEH implementation that is not merged yet. The implementation we have is patent friendly as it implement SEH totaly differntly by using macros kind of like WINE. Its looking good! Thanks Steven __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree

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Re: copy protection - was: Re: Is it time for playing games on WINE?
by Steven Edwards 11 Nov '03

11 Nov '03

Hello, --- Rapha�l_Junqueira <fenix(a)club-internet.fr> wrote: > it is simple, only a PE module who work on kernel mode using os APIs: > > - -=(FeniX as fenix@DarkBluE)-(on tty2)-(at 13:39:31)=- > -={$:'~'}=->winedump dump -j import > /mnt/win_c2/windows/system32/drivers/ > secdrv.sys > Contents of "/mnt/win_c2/windows/system32/drivers/secdrv.sys": 27440 > bytes > > Import Table size: 40 > offset 25404 ntoskrnl.exe > Hint/Name Table: 00006364 > TimeDataStamp: 00000000 (Thu Jan 1 01:00:00 1970) > ForwarderChain: 00000000 > First thunk RVA: 00000260 (delta: 4294967295 0xffffffff) > Ordn Name > 252 IoDeleteSymbolicLink 644a > 251 IoDeleteDevice 63b4 > 247 IoCreateSymbolicLink 63c6 > 243 IoCreateDevice 63de > 720 RtlInitUnicodeString 63f0 > 687 RtlEqualUnicodeString 6408 > 519 NtBuildNumber 6420 > 760 RtlQueryRegistryValues 6430 > 599 PsGetVersion 63a4 > 434 KeTickCount 6462 > 479 MmIsAddressValid 6470 > 792 RtlUnwind 6492 > 54 ExAllocatePoolWithTag 649e > 66 ExFreePool 64b6 > 325 IofCompleteRequest 64c4 > > Done dumping /mnt/win_c2/windows/system32/drivers/secdrv.sys > > The problem is how emulate windows kernel internal behavior (ie > assembly tips > as NtCurrentTeb) We have been looking in to loading this driver under ReactOS and all of the functions are implemented but it still returns STATUS_UNSUCESSFULL. I think that the imports of "PsGetVersion and NtBuildNumber" might have something to do with it. The driver works under my Windows NT 4 laptop but not ReactOS. We may just have to hard code the values to match NT 4 and it could work. If we can get it to load on ROS it will be up to you guys to figure out a way to adapt ROS+WINE to play nice together. =) Thanks Steven __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree

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Re: [ros-kernel] Re: Status of Explorer under ReactOS - Bug #42 (more fixes)
by Martin Fuchs 09 Nov '03

09 Nov '03

On Sun 9. November 2003 00:59, Jonathan Wilson wrote: > Here is what happens on real windows under different cases: > (note that anytime I refer to GetWindowLong, I also mean the return value > one would get from calling SetWindowLong since its the same thing) > Anytime I refer to [SetGet]WindowLong[AW], I refer to calling it with > GWL_WNDPROC as the parameter ... This all sounds reasonable. We should implement it this way. -- Martin Fuchs martin-fuchs(a)gmx.net

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ROS 0.1.5 RC - delayed
by nick_journals 07 Nov '03

07 Nov '03

Hi Guys, The release candidate has been delayed. Had some problems building, we'll first have to check what's wrong. A second attempt will be made sunday. Greets, Nick

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Nvidia drivers
by Ge van Geldorp 07 Nov '03

07 Nov '03

We are now able to load the standard NVidia video drivers for at least NVidia Riva TNT2 Model 64 cards, but probably for more Nvidia based cards. The attached file describes how to do that. Jason/Hyperion, can you find space for that information on the website? It doesn't work perfect yet. Not all lines are drawn (check the maze demo), sometimes the mouse cursor is messed up, the hotspot for the mouse cursor is in the wrong place (you need to point down-right of where you want to click) and dragging the cards in Solitaire doesn't work as it should. If you find other issues, please enter them in Bugzilla. Gé van Geldorp.

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Ros-general November 2003