Driver Woes

[MARTIN SPENCE]

Dear All,

Still having my tail kicked by drivers. I have got to the point where the device manager reports the driver as being installed - or at least the yellow ! exclamation points are gone - but if you double click the actual device it reports that no driver is installed for the hardware?

Anyone have any clues as to what I am missing? Is there a standard set of registry keys that should be included with every driver? I cannot find any logic in that as I have reviewed the successfully installed drivers for other hardware in TD and the registry keys have no common theme.

Exhausted and frustrated!
Martin

 

[Guest]

If you have the component called "Add Hardware Control Panel" in your image,
then you can -install the driver at run-time and see if that gets you going.
Obviously you'd like it to work out of the box, but first you need to know if
your own components work. If Windows says that "This device is not using any
resources because there is no driver installed" it's because there are
missing files or there is a conflict with another device on the system. See
if you can find any info that shows you if there is a conflict, in the
properties on the said device.

Also, check your build log to see if it shows an error about that device in
question. You might have to re-build the components for that device.

Usually when you select your device in TD to the config, it will show down
the bottom what happened when you added it. ie:

Adding component "Widget 2000" to the configuration
Warning component "Widget 2000" is not released
Added "Widget 2000" to the configuration
Esitmated size "2000Bytes"

Something similar anyway.

Try starting a new config, but *only* choose your driver and add that to the
config, and see what TD tells you about it.

Hope this helps.

Cheers!

 

[KM]

And just to add to that.

The best place to look at for potential driver install issues is \windows\setupapi.log.
You can also increase the logging level there: http://km-dev.blogspot.com/2007/04/xpe-tip-12-setupapi-nothing-is-more.html.