On Fri, 18 May 2001, Osvaldo Fornaro wrote:
Hi,
I were far from the project for a while, so sorry if this topic is trivial, but I wish to use a parallel port scanner with wine. Under Windows, appears a device to treat the parallel port as a SCSI port, but is based on a VxD archive, and wine don't find it.
Is there any solution to deal with VxD or not yet?
No, and ther most likely never will be.
VxDs are more or less equivalent to Linux's kernel modules: most need direct access to the hardware, must run in ring 0 (the most priviledged level of the processor) and use a separate API (the DDK API rather than the Win32 API). So Wine does not deal with VxDs. Maybe we should add a section in the Wine User Guide to list what Wine does not do right after 'Wine capabilities': http://wine.codeweavers.com/docs/wine-user/wine-stats.shtml#WINE-CAPABILITIE...
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