Windows Video Drivers on Linux

[Steven Edwards]

Hello,
There is no code yet on this site but I would take this guy at his word as he is the one that
developed the Private ICE debugger for Linux. One of our developers with the ReactOS project
ported PICE to ReactOS so we could debug drivers. Well now it seems he has decided to try and
implement support for Windows Video drivers on Linux.

http://www.privatetools.de/

"I'd also like to announce the start of a new project called "MSCGDI" (Microsoft Compatible
Graphics Device Interface). The project's goal is to write an emulation layer that makes it
possible to install Windows native display drivers on Linux running an Xserver. I have already
started to code a kernel  module that serves as the wrapper around display driver and miniport,
emulating the Win32k.sys and VideoPrt.sys API. So far I have a been able to bring up VGA.DLL and
VGA.SYS from Windows 2000 Professional and use it to draw some basic stuff on a VGA based adapter.

If someone is interested in supporting development of any of those projects, please write to
[e-mail]. I will put up a project website in the next couple of days on which I
will offer some basic demonstration of that idea."

This sounds interesting.

Thanks
Steven

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[Sylvain Petreolle]

Hi Klaus and Steven,
Since this project will provide Microsoft drivers functionnality, will
it emulate vga.dll and others dlls ? I agree with the fact this sounds
really interesting,
but I dont see now in which case this could provide some gain to the
linux user.
Do some display exist and need really specific drivers to function ?
> There is no code yet on this site but I would take this guy at his

word as he is the one
> that developed the Private ICE debugger for Linux. One of our

developers with the
> ReactOS project ported PICE to ReactOS so we could debug drivers.

Well now it
> seems he has decided to try and implement support for Windows Video

drivers on
> Linux.
> This sounds interesting.
> http://www.privatetools.de/
>
> "I'd also like to announce the start of a new project called "MSCGDI"
> (Microsoft Compatible Graphics Device Interface).

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[Gerhard W. Gruber]

On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 22:14:02 -0700 (PDT), Steven Edwards
 wrote:
> There is no code yet on this site but I would take this guy at his word as he is the one that
> developed the Private ICE debugger for Linux. One of our developers with the ReactOS project

And my bet is that there will never be one. At least not in the next future.
unfortunately. I was looking into pice some time ago and tried to contact this
guy about it, but he never answered. I also got his phone number, which is
valid and seems to work, but I couldn't reach him there either. When you look
at the pice project at sourceforge and on his website, then you will notice
that there was the last activity in 2001. When I couldn't contact him a few
months ago, requested the project from sourceforge and are now the new
maintainer for this project. The files you can see with current date are from
me now. So don't expect to much from him. I tried to find some information
about this guy, but everything I could find was dated at about the same time
when he stopped working on pice. This is rather unfortunate, because I think
his two projects quite interesting. I hope to continue pice, but I have a long
way to go there. :) The other project is not interesting enough for me to get
it involved anyway, even though it would be quite nice to have it working.
> If someone is interested in supporting development of any of those projects, please write to
> [e-mail]. I will put up a project website in the next couple of days on which I
> will offer some basic demonstration of that idea."
>
> This sounds interesting.

Yes. And it was written at the end of 2001. And nothing since then.