So the external tool would try to load each driver and put the detected one into the appropriate location in the registry?
Chris
From: Eric Pouech eric.pouech@wanadoo.fr Date: 2003/01/07 Tue PM 05:09:02 EST To: cmorgan@alum.wpi.edu CC: wine-devel@winehq.com Subject: Re: Sound driver autodetection
chrismorgan@rcn.com wrote:
I've been thinking about implementing sound driver autodetection in wine. On startup wine would try to open a device with each of the drivers until one was opened successfully. This seems pretty simple to implement, I was wondering if there was a dynamic way of detecting the list of drivers to try or whether this list would have to be hardcoded in a c file. Eric, any hints?
I don't think this belongs to wine. What we could need is: 1/ an external tool that lists all available drivers 2/ then creates the corrects initialization of the registry. this would also include defining the default driver 3/ then all MM DLLs would get their configuration from the registry
of course, 1/ will get complicated with different wine drivers outputing to the same physical device, but we could infer some of the rules here 1 & 2 could be implemented as a control panel (for better user performance), but also as a pure command line tool so that it can be invoked at wine initialisation (at least for 2/)
as a matter of fact, I already have 3/ implemented, but never committed it because of the lack of 1&2
A+
Eric Pouech