dirtwarrior Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 (edited) This was posted earlier but got no responce so I will post it hereIf I expanded xp driver cab and replacedntkrnlmp.exentkrnlpa.exentkpamp.exentoskrnl.exefrom 2k driver cab and modified the driver ini accordingly. Cabbed it back to LZX and put it into 2k sourse cd would the modified driver cab work?<EDIT>I think I found my own answer in case someone wants to know thisNT4 and 2k hardware was purely HAL (hardware abstract layer) all the control of the hardware went through HALIn XP even though HAL controled hardware it was also software(driver control), not completly sure why MS did this. My theory is to allow more compatably with more drivers and to ease the use of resourses in XP.Please someone read this and write either agreement or disagreement because I am learning. Does anyone have experience in editing driver cab? Want to share experience? Edited September 9, 2005 by dirtwarrior Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurgelmeyer Posted September 11, 2005 Share Posted September 11, 2005 AFAIK the HAL is used by all device drivers to access all hardware. Actually I think it would be easier to start out with the 2k drivers, and then move or update the drivers you want group by group, including all necessary inf's for that device group, and update dosnet, txtsetup, drvindex, and maybe even syssetup and layout. One device class you don't want to move is the Base class, but you might want all the drivers from the Display class, the Multimedia class etc. I've never seen a display driver for xp that didn't work in 2k.Gurgelmeyer B)PS - yes - this is complicated - very complicated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saks Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 I tried updating the driver.cab (W2K) without much success. It would require brains and knowledge of somebody like Gurgelmeyer to do this. Dear Gurgelmeyer, would you throw some light on this subject ?Also, would also kindly let the members know as to when your USP5.1 going to be released ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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